Parties, Civil Society and Democratic Deepening

Comparing India, Brazil and South Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6170777
AutoresPatrick Heller (0000-0001-6548-0576, Brown University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas10-26
Fecha de publicación2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Indian Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2321-0230 • E-ISSN: 2321-7472
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/23210230231166191
OpenAlexW4380893856
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas35

Despite being among the most successful democracies in the Global South, India, Brazil and South Africa have all recently experienced democratic crises. I argue that these democratic crises result from the formation of social coalitions that have been willing to subvert democratic institutions and practices in order to preserve or restore their social and economic privileges. In structural terms, these reactions are tied to the unresolved problem of the incorporation of popular classes. This problem has in turn been mediated by the balance between political and civil society. In India and South Africa that balance has favoured the dominance of mass-based nationalist parties that have thwarted democratic deepening. In Brazil, a more balanced relationship between civil society and political society has favoured the partial incorporation of the popular classes

Civil society · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Dominance (genetics · Economics · Nationalism · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Political theory and Gramsci · Politics and Society in Latin America