Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding
Heure: 12 h à 13h 15
Lieu: DKN-3244
Description de l'événement
Warning signs are mounting: in many Western democracies, younger cohorts express weaker attachment to democratic norms. This talk advances a unified account of the micro-foundations of democratic deconsolidation, showing how citizens’ democratic commitments become conditional under pressure. I argue that perceived threats—whether rooted in acute security crises or in status-based anxieties — can heighten demand for protection and increase tolerance for violations of democratic rules. At the same time, affective polarization does not automatically erode democratic commitments; its impact depends on specific political configurations that make executive power expansion appear instrumentally attractive. Across these dynamics, democratic backsliding emerges less as a sudden institutional rupture than as a gradual reweighting of citizen priorities away from procedural constraints and toward protection, competition, and authority.
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- Passcode : 417729
Biographie
Dietlind Stolle est professeure titulaire au Département de science politique de l’Université McGill. Elle a étudié à l’Université Princeton et est membre de la société royale du Canada depuis 2021. Ses recherches portent sur les gouvernements et la politique comparée. Elle a été directrice du Centre pour l’étude de la citoyenneté démocratique (CECD).
Parmi ses publications récentes, on compte le chapitre « Affective polarization and social cohesion » dans le manuel Handbook of Affective Polarization et « Aiding Ukraine in the Russian war: unity or new dividing line among Europeans? » dans la revue European Political Science.