Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy. Issue 5 (4th July 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy. Issue 5 (4th July 2021)
- Main Title:
- Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy
- Authors:
- Welzel, Christian
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Recent accounts of democratic backsliding are negligent about the cultural foundations of autocracy-vs-democracy. To bring culture back in, I demonstrate that (1) the countries' membership in culture zones explains some 70% of the global variation in autocracy-vs-democracy and (2) that this culture-bound variation has remained astoundingly constant over time – in spite of all the trending patterns in the global distribution of regime types over the last 120 years. Furthermore, the explanatory power of culture zones over autocracy-vs-democracy roots in the cultures' differentiation on "authoritarian-vs-emancipative values." Against this backdrop, lasting regime turnovers happen as a corrective response to glacially accruing regime-culture misfits – driven by generational value shifts into a pre-dominantly emancipatory direction. Consequently, the backsliding of democracies into authoritarianism is limited to societies in which emancipative values remain under-developed. Contrary to the widely cited deconsolidation-thesis, the prevalent generational profile in people's moral orientations exhibits an almost ubiquitous ascension of emancipative values that will lend more, not less, legitimacy to democracy in the future.
- Is Part Of:
- Democratization. Volume 28:Issue 5(2021)
- Journal:
- Democratization
- Issue:
- Volume 28:Issue 5(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 28, Issue 5 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0028-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 992
- Page End:
- 1016
- Publication Date:
- 2021-07-04
- Subjects:
- Autocratization -- autocracy -- democracy -- regime change -- emancipative values -- culture zones
Democracy -- Periodicals
Economic history -- 1990- -- Periodicals
Democratization -- Periodicals
321.8 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fdem20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/13510347.2021.1883001 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1351-0347
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- Legaldeposit
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