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“Intentional Polarization: How Policy Extremism and Ideological Overuse Promote Democratic Backsliding” in Democratization www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Intentional polarization: How policy extremism and ideological overuse promote democratic backsliding
Executives engaging in democratic backsliding often adopt extreme policies and ideologized discourses. We argue that this is intentional. The aim is to exacerbate polarization, which itself is inte...
