1st Edition
Resilience of Democracy Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges
Introduction—Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges
Wolfgang Merkel and Anna Lührmann
1. How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process
Vanessa A. Boese, Amanda B. Edgell, Sebastian Hellmeier, Seraphine F. Maerz and Staffan I. Lindberg
2. What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability
Melis G. Laebens and Anna Lührmann
3. Pernicious polarization, autocratization and opposition strategies
Murat Somer, Jennifer L. McCoy and Russell E. Luke
4. Negative partisanship towards the populist radical right and democratic resilience in Western Europe
Carlos Meléndez and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
5. The supply and demand model of civic education: evidence from a field experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Steven E. Finkel and Junghyun Lim
6. Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy
Christian Welzel
7. Disrupting the autocratization sequence: towards democratic resilience
Anna Lührmann
Biography
Anna Lührmann has been Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and since 2021 serves as a Member of the German Bundestag and Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office.
Wolfgang Merkel is Professor Emeritus at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, and Director Emeritus at WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He serves as Senior Scholar at the Democracy Institute at Central University in Budapest. His research focuses on Transformation of political regimes, (defective) democracy and democratization, political parties, and social democracy in power. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation (2019).
