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The nature of the Education Cleavage in four Eroding Democracies 1

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ID12940208
AuthorsNevio Moreschi (0009-0002-9792-560X, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume18
Issue4
Pages603-632
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics in Central Europe (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1801-3422 • E-ISSN: 2787-9038
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.2478/pce-2022-0025
OpenAlexW4324124476
LanguageEN
References cited38

In recent years, weaker and consolidated democracies alike were in many instances caught by a wave of autocratisation. However, given the protractedness in the time of the phenomenon of democratic erosion, it is not unlikely that the process overlaps with multiple electoral cycles. This gives to those parties committed to liberal democracy a window to organise themselves and challenge the incumbent at the ballots. The present study investigates whether the political division between incumbent parties and organised pro-democratic opposition in Poland, Hungary, Bolivia and Turkey coincides with a political cleavage that fits Baiern and Maier’s three-dimensional conceptualisation of the term. Through a quantitative approach, it emerges that indeed authoritarian and liberal values (Normative dimension) substantially account for the divergence in political support (Organisational dimension) by the different educated groups (Social dimension) in all the countries under observation. These findings not only support the existence of an educational cleavage outside of Western and Northern Europe, but also highlights its centrality in the ongoing fight for democracy. Furthermore, Hungary appears as a peculiar case, since democratic commitment accounts more than the authoritarian-liberal scale in explaining the support (or lack of it) for the incumbent party by the Hungarian educational groups

Authoritarianism · Cleavage (geology · Democracy · Divergence (linguistics · Normative · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Religion and Society Interactions

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