Benchmarking Democracy Against Authoritarian Pasts: Authoritarian Nostalgia and Vote for Far-right Parties

• In Event: Memory, Denialism, and Authoritarian Pasts

Brief Overview

This study argues that far-right party support in new democracies increases when citizens consider democracy as underperforming compared to past authoritarian regimes, especially amid greater inequality or weaker human rights protections.

Authors

• Haseok Oh, University of California, Riverside

• Sung Min Han, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies