Regression of Democracy?

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Gero Erdmann, Marianne Kneuer

   Pages 9-19

3. Decline of Democracy: Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy

   • Gero Erdmann

   Pages 21-58

4. Quality Criteria for Democracy. Why Responsiveness is not the Key

   • Hans-Joachim Lauth

   Pages 59-80

5. Is the international environment becoming less benign for democratisation?

   • Peter Burnell

   Pages 81-101

6. The United States of America – a Deficient Democracy

   • Josef Braml, Hans-Joachim Lauth

   Pages 103-132

7. Deficits in Democratic Quality? The Effects of Party-System Institutionalisation on the Quality of Democracy in Central Eastern Europe

   • Marianne Kneuer

   Pages 133-171

8. Do Party Systems Make Democracy Work? A Comparative Test of Party-system Characteristics and Democratization in Francophone Africa

   • Matthias Basedau, Alexander Stroh

   Pages 173-199

9. Elections, Democratic Regression and Transitions to Autocracy: Lessons from Russia and Venezuela

   • Rolf Frankenberger, Patricia Graf

   Pages 201-220

10. Wilted Roses and Tulips: The Regression of Democratic Rule in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia

    • Christoph H. Stefes, Jennifer Sehring

    Pages 221-246

11. Democratic Survival or Autocratic Revival in Interwar Europe A Comparative Examination of Structural Explanations

    • Svend-Erik Skaaning

    Pages 247-265

Democratization since the implosion of the communist bloc displays a mixed balance. While the neo-democracies in Central Eastern European Countries can be seen as largely consolidated, many other processes of democratization in other parts of the world such as Africa, Asia and Latin America got stuck as unconsolidated or became defective democracies, some ‘regressed’ into hybrid regimes or were even turned into autocracies. While transitology dealt with the transition from authoritarian rule, the reverse process, the transition from democratic rule, remained almost completely outside the scholarly attention. This special issue will address the problems of the regression of democracy and aims at closing the gap between research on democracy and democratization on one side and the emergence of authoritarian regimes on the other. The contributions of this volume analyse the different phenomena in which decline of democracy fans out: the loss of quality, which means a silent regression; the backslide into hybrid regimes (hybridization); and the breakdown of democracy.

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• Demokratie
• Demokratieforschung
• Failing States
• Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Dr. Gero Erdmann is Head of Research Programme 1 and Head of GIGA Office Berlin of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg.
Prof. Dr. Marianne Kneuer is Professor for Comparative Politics and International Relations at the University of Hildesheim, Germany.

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