The Origins of Elected Strongmen
How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 May 2024
- ISBN 9780198888079
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 240x162x20 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English 563
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Short description:
Examining the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their leader's career as opposed to promote a specific policy platform, and using original data capturing levels of personalism, this book shows that the rise of personalist parties around the globe is facilitating the decline of democracy.
MoreLong description:
Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically elected incumbents, who seize control by slowly chipping away at democratic institutions. To better understand these developments, this book examines the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their leader's career as opposed to promote a specific policy platform. Using original data capturing levels of personalism in the parties of democratically elected leaders from 1991 to 2020, The Origins of Elected Strongmen shows that the rise of personalist parties around the globe is facilitating the decline of democracy.
Personalist parties lack both the incentive and capacity to push back against a leader's efforts to expand executive power. As such, leaders backed by personalist parties are more likely to succeed in their efforts to dismantle institutional constraints on their rule. Such attacks on state institutions, in turn, reverberate throughout society, deepening political polarization and weakening supporters' commitment to democratic norms of behaviour. In these ways, ruling party personalism erodes horizontal and vertical constraints on a leader, ultimately degrading democracy and raising the risk of democratic failure.
While many have pointed to populism or polarization as the source of democratic decline, The Origins of Elected Strongmen takes a different approach, arguing that the real culprits are the modern political parties that have become personal fiefdoms. A refreshing, thought-provoking analysis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
What are Personalist Parties?
The Argument
The Evidence
Institutional Pathways
Societal Pathways
Personalist Politics, Democracy, and the Path Ahead
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