Board #40 - Autocratic Radicalization: The Strategic Choices of Autocratic Executives and the Death of Democracy

• In Event: 75-300 - Poster Session: Challenges to the Legitimacy of Authoritarian Governments

Brief Overview

I analyze democratic backsliding in Poland and Turkey to show how the timing of escalation from moderate to radical attacks on democracy helps to determine the success or failure of autocratic executives’ efforts to erode democracy.

Author

• Maxwell Bilder Serota, Carleton College