Authoritarian Nostalgia, Democratic Performance and the Support for Authoritarian Successor Parties

• In Event: International and Domestic Competition Between Democracy and Autocracy in the Asia-Pacific Region

Brief Overview

This paper finds that when young democracies fail to show strong economic and political performance, their citizens are more likely to be dissatisfied with democracy, thereby increasing support for authoritarian successor parties.

Authors

• Sung Min Han, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

• Haseok Oh, University of California-Riverside