Learning from Global Democratic Challenges and Innovations Mini-Conference I: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies I: Constitutional Perspectives

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Learning from Global Democratic Challenges and Innovations Mini-Conference I

Session Description

The literature on the current crisis of liberal democracy focuses on the rise of illiberalism and populism as well as on the erosion of democratic rights and institutions; less systematic attention has been paid to how pro-democratic actors can counter illiberalism. The scholarship on responses to illiberalism is scattered across different subfields, including analyses of legal and judicial restrictions on extremism, studies of party organization and competition, works on civil society organizations and social movements, and analyses of voting behavior. This panel and its companion panel “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies II: Political and Civil Society” are part of a collective project that brings together scholars from different subfields to analyze the conditions of viability and effectiveness of strategies that governments, parties, civil society actors, and voters can enact to prevent the rise, contain the influence, and –if illiberal forces attain control of the executive-- resist the power of political illiberalism in democracies.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Cosponsor

• Division 11: Comparative Politics

Individual Presentations

• Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Actors, Strategies, Temporalities - Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford

• Defending Parliament: Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion - Isabela Mares, Yale University

• Democracy-Reinforcing Constitutional Hardball - David Alexander Bateman, Cornell University

• Institutional Responses to Illiberalism in Greece - Antonis A. Ellinas, University of Cyprus

Chair

• Kim Lane Scheppele Princeton University

Discussants

• Jacob S. Hacker Yale University

• Robert R. Kaufman Rutgers University, New Brunswick