Learning from Global Democratic Challenges and Innovations Mini-Conference I: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies II: Political and Civil Society

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 I: Constitutional Perspectives” 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

• Coordinating against Authoritarian Power Bids - Ivan Ermakoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary - Laura Jakli, Harvard University; Jason Wittenberg, University of California, Berkeley; Bela Greskovits, Central European University-Budapest

• Ethnic Parties and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of the United States - Robert C. Lieberman, Johns Hopkins University; Daniel Schlozman, Johns Hopkins University

• Building Tolerance for Backsliding by Trash-Talking Democracy in Mexico - Lautaro Cella, University of Chicago; Ipek Cinar, University of Chicago; Susan C. Stokes, University of Chicago; Andres Uribe, Stanford University

• Social Norms, Preference Falsification, and the Supply of Exclusionary Policy - Vicente Valentim, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Chair

• Giovanni Capoccia University of Oxford

Discussants

• Lucan A. Way University of Toronto

• Kurt Weyland University of Texas at Austin