Democratic backsliding in India is every political party's doing

Full article: Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring ...

Through detailed case studies of India and Pakistan since 2014, we show that South Asia is significant for understandings of autocratization, notably, the range ...

Preventing Democratic Backsliding Isn't The Same As Securing ...

The INDIA bloc's ability to rein in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vaulting ambition to godhood does not extend to addressing a vast ...

Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective

Our comparative case studies support our argument that federalism is only likely to serve as a bulwark against autocratic threats posed by national rulers.

Explainer: Democratic backsliding - International IDEA

Democratic backsliding involves “state-led debilitation or elimination of any of the political institutions that sustain an existing democracy.”

A triumph for Indian democracy - The Economist

The shock election result will change the country—ultimately for the better. A political poster of Indian Prime Minister Modi coming unstuck in ...

Democratic backsliding – the Indian gradient - Times of India

Democratic backsliding in many countries is a growing concern. Alarms raised by international watchdogs seem to have done nothing much to ...

Does India Offer a Glimmer of Hope for Democracy?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India was elected to a third term in office in June, but his Bharatiya Janata Party failed to win a simple ...

Comparative Democratization and Democratic Backsliding: - jstor

Daniel Ziblatt, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, ...

Democratic Backsliding and the Rule of Law - Chicago Unbound

DEMOCRACY (2018). 1. See e.gs., Aziz Huq & Tom Ginsburg, How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy, 65 UCLA L.

How India's Ruling Party Erodes Democracy

India's democratic backsliding began with the rise to power of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2014 elections.

Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic ...

We begin our analysis with a discussion of how to conceptualize democracy and democratic backsliding, stressing that for contested concepts such ...

4. Leadership style of backsliding - Parliamentarians for Global Action

Democratic backsliding refers to the progressive erosion of democratic institutions and norms with the view of consolidating power.

Nothing Has Changed in India by Debasish Roy Chowdhury

Following this year's general election in India, where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost its majority in parliament, many commentators ...

More than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy

Recognizing the serious risk of democratic backsliding in the United States, the American Political Science Association (APSA) and Protect ...

Democratic backsliding by country - Wikipedia

Democratic backsliding, also known as autocratization, is the decline in democratic qualities of a political regime, the opposite of democratization.

Conceptualizing and measuring subnational democracy across ...

This paper develops a conceptualization of subnational democracy based on four constitutive dimensions – turnover, contestation, autonomy and clean elections.

Democracy under threat: a case for co-ordinated action?

It argued that many democratic governments were increasingly adopting authoritarian tactics, accentuated by the Covid-19 pandemic, while ...

No, stopping democratic backsliding does not mean securing ...

The INDIA bloc's ability to rein in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vaulting ambition to godhood does not extend to addressing a vast ...

In Conversation with Tarunabh Khaitan - Review of Democracy

... democratic backsliding in India, the rise of an unchecked executive, and the role that courts and opposition parties play in protecting

India's Democratic Backsliding Hasn't Stopped - Foreign Policy

Activists shout slogans from a bus after being detained by police during a protest near the residence of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah in New ...