Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe by Bartels, Larry M.
Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe by Bartels, Larry M.

Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe

Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe's crisis of democracy A seeming explosion of...
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Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe by Bartels, Larry M.

Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe

$100.37
Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe by Bartels, Larry M.

Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe

$100.37
Author: Larry M. Bartels
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe's crisis of democracy

A seeming explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy Erodes from the Top reveals that the real crisis stems not from an increasingly populist public but from political leaders who exploit or mismanage the chronic vulnerabilities of democracy.

In this provocative book, Larry Bartels dismantles the pervasive myth of a populist wave in contemporary European public opinion. While there has always been a substantial reservoir of populist sentiment, Europeans are no less trusting of their politicians and parliaments than they were two decades ago, no less enthusiastic about European integration, and no less satisfied with the workings of democracy. Anti-immigrant sentiment has waned. Electoral support for right-wing populist parties has increased only modestly, reflecting the idiosyncratic successes of populist entrepreneurs, the failures of mainstream parties, and media hype. Europe's most sobering examples of democratic backsliding--in Hungary and Poland--occurred not because voters wanted authoritarianism but because conventional conservative parties, once elected, seized opportunities to entrench themselves in power.

By demonstrating the inadequacy of conventional bottom-up interpretations of Europe's political crisis, Democracy Erodes from the Top turns our understanding of democratic politics upside down.

Author: Larry M. Bartels
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780691244501


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About the Author
Larry M. Bartels is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law and May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age and (with Christopher H. Achen) Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (both Princeton).
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