Constitutional Democracies in Crisis: mapping the institutional strategies that lead to the democratic erosion
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https://doi.org/10.17808/des.58.1209Keywords:
democracy, authoritarianism, democratic erosion, democratic decline, democratic backsliding, democratic decayAbstract
This article aims to understand the state of the art of literature on recent phenomenon of democratic erosion in constitutionals democracies systems around the world, which has been studied by comparative researches on constitutional law and political science, in order to map which institutional strategies represent the incremental decline of quality of these regimes towards authoritarianism. First of all, the concept of liberal democracy in crises present in this literature will be analyzed. Second, the two ways of how democracies can end: the rapid, authoritarian collapse, and the slow, democratic erosion. Third, it will seek to identify the constitutional, legal and political measures that can be taken by an elected official and political parties to subvert the democratic institutions, to concentrate power on their behalf, to reduce the odds of opposing groups, and to undermine pluralism.References
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