Who’s To Blame for Democratic Backsliding, Populists or Dominant Executives?

• In Event: Populism and the State of Democracy

Brief Overview

We employ matching methods to distinguish the effects of populist executives and dominant executives on the decline in democracy under democratic governments serving in all regions of the world since 1970.

Authors

• Marisa Kellam, Waseda University

• Antonio Benasaglio Berlucchi, Waseda University, Graduate School of Political Science