Democratic Backsliding
As defined by Nancy Burmeo, a senior research fellow in politics at Oxford University, Democratic Backsliding refers to the process of “state-led debilitation or elimination of the political institutions sustaining an existing democracy.” In other words, it’s when countries that were once democratic start slowly changing to something more familiar an autocracy. Autocracy is described as a system of government in which absolute power is … Continue reading Democratic Backsliding