What Happens after Democratic Erosion? A Framework of Post-Erosion Trajectories and Democratic Recovery
Marianne Kneuer
Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Professor of Comparative Politics
Director of the Institute of Political Science
Dresden University of Technology
Democratic erosion can be stopped. There are good theoretical reasons and first empirical evidence for that. However, stopping democratic erosion is not equivalent to democratic recovery. What possible trajectories are there for the post-erosion phase? How can democratic recovery – as one of them – be captured? These questions have not been found sufficient attention but are highly relevant for developing strategies of post-erosion democratic reconstruction. This lecture presents a framework covering these questions and thus offering an approach for addressing post-erosion developments.
