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Workshop on Subnational Illiberal Practices in Federal and Unitary Democracies

Sat, May 28, 2:30 to 4:00pm, TBA

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Comparative research on subnational illiberal practices and subnational authoritarianism has expanded rapidly over the last decade. Most of this research has focused on federal democracies, where there are second-tier units that have an important degree of autonomy vis-à-vis the federal regime. This workshop aims to promote discussion about the range of illiberal structures and practices that may be found at the subnational level in nationally democratic countries and to explore to what extent the findings from federal cases are transferrable to unitary countries. The starting point of the debate will be the volume “Illiberal Practices: Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies”, edited by Jacqueline Behrend and Laurence Whitehead (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). The discussion will address the following questions: how do subnational illiberal practices constrain national democracy in federal and unitary countries? What are the differences between subnational illiberal practices in federal and unitary countries? What pathways towards subnational democratization can be identified in federal and unitary countries? The workshop will bring together senior and junior scholars to engage in a discussion around these and other questions.

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