Voting Against Autocracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6410108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milan W Svolik (0000-0002-3463-5261, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 647-691 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wp.2023.a908772 |
| OpenAlex | W4387406829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
When and how do voters punish politicians for subverting democracy? To investigate the role of the public in democratic backsliding, I develop a conceptual framework that differentiates among three mechanisms: vote switching, backlash, and disengagement. The first mechanism entails defection by voters from a candidate who undermines democracy to one who does not; the latter two mechanisms entail transitions between voting and abstention. I estimate the magnitude of each mechanism by combining evidence from a series of original survey experiments, traditional surveys, and a quasi-experiment afforded by the rerun of the 2019 Istanbul mayoral election, in which the governing party, akp, attempted to overturn the result of an election that it had lost. I find that although vote switching and backlash contributed to the akp's eventual defeat the most, each of the three mechanisms served as a democratic check in some subset of the Istanbul electorate. Persuasion, mobilization, and even demobilization are all viable tools for curbing the authoritarian tendencies of elected politicians
Authoritarianism · Autocracy · Backlash · Democracy · Disengagement theory · Economics · Mechanism (biology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society
Does support for democracy increase losers’ consent?
Transformative Accumulation Under Dominant-Party Rule
When polarization meets backsliding
Secularization in the minaret’s shadow
Trading economic for security performance
The big brothers
Keep positive and defend democracy
Election Outcomes and The Digestion of Grievance
Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies
Unlocking pathways in constrained local governance
Enforcing the rule of law in the EU
Resistance at the polls
A tale of two cities
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding
When autocratization is reversed
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy
Dynamic Democratic Backsliding
Living in Different Worlds
Defeated dictators? Autocratic opposition in subnational politics
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |