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  • 2 - General Patterns
    • from Part I - The Past: Crises of Democracy
  • Adam Przeworski, New York University
  • Book: Crises of Democracy
  • Published online: 25 September 2019
  • Print publication: 26 September 2019, pp 29-38
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    Summary

    Economic, political, and institutional features of democracies that survived until 2008 and of those that collapsed are compared. The vulnerability of democracies to different types of crises is examined.

  • 6 - Potential Causes
    • from Part II - The Present: What Is Happening?
  • Adam Przeworski, New York University
  • Book: Crises of Democracy
  • Published online: 25 September 2019
  • Print publication: 26 September 2019, pp 103-122
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    Summary

    Potential causes of the current crisis are catalogued and examined. They may include globalization, technological change, breakdown of class compromise, immigration, authorization of prejudices by some insurgent politicians, or something else?

  • 11 - What Can and Cannot Happen?
    • from Part III - The Future?
  • Adam Przeworski, New York University
  • Book: Crises of Democracy
  • Published online: 25 September 2019
  • Print publication: 26 September 2019, pp 192-206
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    Summary

    The conclusions are drawn by identifying the range of possibilities contained in the current crisis. Positive and negative economic trends are documented. Populism is shown to be endemic in representative institutions. Deep social and cultural roots of the crisis are emphasized.

  • 10 - Subversion by Stealth
    • from Part III - The Future?
  • Adam Przeworski, New York University
  • Book: Crises of Democracy
  • Published online: 25 September 2019
  • Print publication: 26 September 2019, pp 172-191
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    Summary

    Democracy can be eroded by governments that use only constitutional means to monopolize power and gain discretion in policy making. Opposition can be effective only if citizens are forward looking, anticipating cumulative consequences.

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