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LÜRHMANN:Third wave of autocratization - Coggle Diagram
LÜRHMANN:Third wave of autocratization
Scholars agree that even though there is an 3rd wave of autocracies unfolding is yet too premature ti announce its victory
Two key issues
Democracies eroding gradually and under legal disguise
Myultiparty regimes have become less meaningful in practice
Contemporary democrats have mastered the art of subverting electoral standards without breaking their democratic faÇade completely
Democratic break downs used to be sudden events like "coups"
Conversely, more clandestine ways of autocratisation : harassment of the opposition, subversion of horizontal accountability (freedom and civil society)
Executive agrandissement: weaken checks on executive one by one undertaking a series of institutional changes that hamper the power of the opposition froces to challenge executive preferences
Some schorals discuss the exact moment this momentous of autocracy began (at the 1930's or does it even began at all?)
Scholars have also not complete the task of labelling the "inbetweens" of countries where democracy has not eroded fully or conutries that never became a democracy
Important because all countries were closed to be llabeled autocracies in 1980, but by 2017, only 12% of the countries were actually labelled as autoracies
by 2017, 56% of the worlds regimes can be consider democracies and the most common form of dictatorship are the 32% of electoral autocracies
Electoral autocrats have secure their competitive advantage through subtler parctices
Censoring and harassing the media
Restricting cicil society and political parties
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What and what is not an autocracy?
3 terms to differentiate
Backsliding
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Bermeo: If autocracies develop gradually, does this also mean the magnitude of change?