32512
Seminar
WiSe 22/23: Democratic Backsliding? The United States in Perspective
Christian Lammert
Additional information / Pre-requisites
This course begins with an overview of approaches to theories of democracy and democratization from a historical and comparative perspective, and then uses this foundational work to introduce contemporary challenges to democracy in the form of failed consolidation, autocratic reversal, and especially democratic backslide. The course will begin with material on the definition of democracy and other related concepts, and then will give an overview of existing theories of the causes, pre-requisites, and means of democratization, highlighting how theories and approaches have shifted over time in response to empirical changes across the three “waves” of democracy.. Finally, we will discuss what happens when consolidation fails, focusing on the concepts and causes of autocratic reversion, democratic backslide, populism, and illiberal democracy. We conclude the course with discussions of different examples of democratic backslide, and what these cases suggest about the future prospect for liberal democracy. close
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This course begins with an overview of approaches to theories of democracy and democratization from a historical and comparative perspective, and then uses this foundational work to introduce contemporary challenges to democracy in the form of failed consolidation, autocratic reversal, and especially democratic backslide. The course will begin with material on the definition of democracy and other related concepts, and then will give an overview of existing theories of the causes, pre-requisites, and means of democratization, highlighting how theories and approaches have shifted over time in response to empirical changes across the three “waves” of democracy.. Finally, we will discuss what happens when consolidation fails, focusing on the concepts and causes of autocratic reversion, democratic backslide, populism, and illiberal democracy. We conclude the course with discussions of different examples of democratic backslide, and what these cases suggest about the future prospect for liberal democracy. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2022-10-19 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2022-10-26 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2022-11-02 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2022-11-09 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2022-11-16 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2022-11-23 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2022-11-30 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2022-12-07 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2022-12-14 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2023-01-04 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2023-01-11 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2023-01-18 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2023-01-25 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2023-02-01 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2023-02-08 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2023-02-15 10:00 - 12:00