New in our electronic #collection:
➡️ Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198902768.001.0001
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Books #Bookstodon #Democracy #Politics #SocialSciences
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New in our electronic #collection:
➡️ Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198902768.001.0001
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Books #Bookstodon #Democracy #Politics #SocialSciences
The individual chapters are almost-OA (cloudfront-walled). Case examples of #DemocraticBacksliding : #Poland + #Hungary .
The aim is to study heterogeneity in citizens' views on democracy, at a micro-level, and to relate this to citizens' responses to democratic backsliding.
The results appear to explain the paradox of apparent popular support for democracy but actual backsliding.
#Majoritarianism - majority having absolute power over minority - is one key viewpoint studied.
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