Building Tolerance for Backsliding by Trash-Talking Democracy: Theory and Evidence From Mexico
Published online on March 20, 2025
Abstract
Comparative Political Studies, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 1226-1253, May 2026.
Leaders who seek to build public toleration for democratic backsliding have a little-noticed strategy at their disposal: degrading their democracies in the eyes of their citizens. If voters can be induced to believe that their democracy is already broken, ...
Leaders who seek to build public toleration for democratic backsliding have a little-noticed strategy at their disposal: degrading their democracies in the eyes of their citizens. If voters can be induced to believe that their democracy is already broken, ...