Authoritarian Backsliding

• In Event: Midwest Eurasia Political Economy Workshop -- Electoral & Regime Support

Brief Overview

We develop a formal model to analyze the phenomenon of authoritarian backsliding and then illustrate the model’s implications through an analytic narrative that focuses on the current Polish government's efforts to reform the Polish judiciary.

Authors

• Monika A. Nalepa, University of Chicago

• Georg Vanberg, Duke University