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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• de Oliveira, Felipe Antunes

Titel

Democracy in the prison of political science

Ist Teil von

• International political science review, 2022-11, Vol.43 (5), p.648-661

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• After the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, a widespread perception emerged that the world was witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. Not surprisingly, said crisis is at the core of a new batch of political science literature. This review article takes stock of some key contributions to the literature, namely Albright (2018), Levitsky and Ziblatt (2018), Norris and Inglehart (2018), Runciman (2018a) and Eatwell and Goodwin (2018). My key argument is that the reviewed books are fundamentally limited by problematic ontological assumptions stemming from artificial disciplinary boundaries. Privileging either individual traits of authoritarian leaders or the very specific experience of the USA or the UK, they fail to capture varied, yet deeply interconnected international expressions of contemporary authoritarianism. Following Justin Rosenberg’s open invitation to place the concept of multiplicity at the centre of a renewed research agenda, I suggest that a more holistic take on the crisis of democracy requires a renewed attention to inter-societal dynamics.