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Innovative Approaches to Studying Democratic Backsliding and Resilience
Thu, August 31, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), LACC, 402ASession Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
Session Description
This panel includes a collection of papers on democratic backsliding and resilience from around the world and using a variety of methodologies. Papers highlight the role of social forces and polarization as well as their interactions with political institutions to help halt and reverse backsliding. The wide-range of methodological approaches complements traditional quantitative analyses through analysis relying on text analysis, machine learning, agent-modeling, conceptualization and measurement, and pathway case studies.
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Individual Presentations
Tracking Polarizing Political Rhetoric in Democratic Backsliding and Recovery - Jeremy Martin Ladd, Quinnipiac University; Paul Friesen, Cornell University
An Agent-Based Model of Democratic Backsliding - Paul Friesen, Cornell University; Andrew Hocking, Hocking Services, LLC
Old Autocracy or Something New?: Measuring Democratic Erosion and Near Misses - Murat Somer, Ozyegin University Istanbul; Alper Yılmaz, Koç University
Democracy vs. Political Entrepreneurs: Abandoning Democracy for the Nation - Filip Milacic, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Ousting an Autocrat: Opposition Alliances in Competitive Autocratic Regimes - Ozlem Tuncel, Georgia State University