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📢 ECPS Interview
🎓 Professor Adam Przeworski: There Is No Worldwide Crisis of Democracy
✍️Interview by Selcuk Gultasli
🚨 In a scholarly landscape increasingly dominated by narratives of democratic decline, authoritarian resurgence, and populist disruption, Professor Adam Przeworski (@AdamPrzeworski) offers a strikingly counterintuitive perspective. In this in-depth ECPS interview , Professor Przeworski challenges the prevailing consensus: “I do not believe there is a worldwide crisis of democracy.”
📊 Rather than interpreting contemporary developments as evidence of systemic collapse, Professor Przeworski reframes democracy as a mechanism for managing conflict through elections—a system inherently characterized by dissatisfaction, contestation, and competing expectations.
⚖️ He acknowledges unprecedented transformations—including the weakening of political parties, rising polarization, and the emergence of new right-wing actors—but cautions against conflating these dynamics with democratic breakdown. Instead, he emphasizes structural continuity: “As much as half of the population is always dissatisfied with what democracy produces.”
🌍 Challenging influential datasets such as Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem), Professor Przeworski questions both their empirical assumptions and interpretive frameworks. He underscores a crucial distinction:
➡️ While population-weighted measures may suggest authoritarian expansion,
➡️ the number of democratic regimes globally remains historically high.
🔍 The interview also explores:
👉 The shift from coups to incumbent-led democratic erosion
👉 The strategic dilemmas of opposition under “stealth authoritarianism”
👉 The endogenous nature of populism within democratic competition
👉 The conditions under which authoritarian regimes gain legitimacy
👉 The limits of modernization theory in explaining democratization
🛡️ Crucially, Professor Przeworski highlights democracy’s self-correcting capacity:
👉 “Attempts to usurp power through various means eventually encounter resistance.”
👉 “Small transgressions may be tolerated, but major violations of democratic rules are not.”
📌 By situating contemporary challenges within a broader theory of political conflict and institutional equilibrium, this interview offers a sobering yet cautiously optimistic reassessment of democracy’s resilience.
📕 Read the interview: https://t.co/wRv1yxqZGS
#ECPS #Populism #Democracy #AdamPrzeworski #DemocraticBacksliding #Authoritarianism #PoliticalTheory #ComparativePolitics #Vdem #Elections #DemocraticResilience #GlobalPolitics
"Quiebra":
Aunque un país no quiebra como una empresa, por último podría usarse el concepto si cae en cesación de pagos de su deuda (default).
En Chile, eso no ha pasado desde 1931.
Bajisimo riesgo país indica que el mercado tampoco lo cree probable.
La ignorancia es atrevida.
La Tercera @latercera me bajó de un debate. Está en su derecho.
Alguna vez tuité: “El Mercurio miente, La Tercera mucho más”.
No era una frase al voleo, sino el título de un paper académico publicado en el Bulletin of Latin American Research (Osorio y Navia, 2015), que demuestra sesgo sistemático en titulares de prensa chilena.
Hoy encontré la evidencia que entonces no tenía a mano.
Solo pido algo básico: que no se veten candidaturas por pensar distinto.
El periodismo se honra cuando debate, no cuando excluye.
PD: Comparen los titulares de las imágenes adjuntas, todos sobre la misma noticia, y entenderán por qué el paper se titula así.
My latest paper, just published: In Pinochet’s Shadows: The Incidence of Authoritarian/Democratic Values on the Vote Choice in the 2022 Constitutional Plebiscite in Chile - Latin American Politics and Society - Cambridge Core - https://t.co/awvN53ezfq 🙂
My latest paper, just published: In Pinochet’s Shadows: The Incidence of Authoritarian/Democratic Values on the Vote Choice in the 2022 Constitutional Plebiscite in Chile - Latin American Politics and Society - Cambridge Core - https://t.co/awvN53ezfq 🙂
La defensa de Przeworski de una concepción minimalista de la democracia
Es más común abogar por una definición expansiva de la democracia que por una minimalista. En parte por eso es valioso este texto de Przeworski.
Descarga libre: https://t.co/6jouY0KgTg