Our article with Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joe Wright is out in Political Behavior (open access). We show that polarization is not just a driver of democratic backsliding; it is endogenous to backsliding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Democratic Backsliding and Endogenous Polarization - Political Behavior
Leading accounts of contemporary democratic decline emphasize the role of polarization in enabling incumbent governments to dismantle democracy from within. This study offers a fuller portrait of this...
