dc.contributor.author | Corbett, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-26T23:04:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-26T23:04:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1478-9299 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1478929919864785 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/387794 | |
dc.description.abstract | Democracy in the United States and Europe is said to be at the crossroads. I review five recent books that seek to diagnose and cure this ‘crisis’. Explanations range from institutional dysfunction and elite maleficence to technological change and rising economic inequality. Remedies include everything from institutional engineering to moral persuasion. Collectively, the books raise two important questions: is this really a crisis and if it is, can democratisation theory, the branch of political science dedicated to explaining why regimes rise and fall, tell us why? I conclude that if we are to explain the deconsolidation of well-established democracies in which all of the usual pre-conditions had been met, then we must first question the linear narrative about democracy being a naturally legitimate form of regime. | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | en_US |
dc.language | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Political Studies Review | en_US |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Political Science | en_US |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1606 | en_US |
dc.title | The Deconsolidation of Democracy: Is It New and What Can Be Done About It? | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Corbett, J, The Deconsolidation of Democracy: Is It New and What Can Be Done About It?, Political Studies Review, 2019 | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2019-09-26T22:57:02Z | |
dc.description.version | Post-print | en_US |
gro.description.notepublic | This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version. | en_US |
gro.rights.copyright | Jack Corbett, The Deconsolidation of Democracy: Is It New and What Can Be Done About It?, Political Studies Review, 2019. Copyright 2019 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. | en_US |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Corbett, Jack | |