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1/6
"[Chávez,Putin & Erdogan] stoked widespread discontent to undermine institutional constraints on their power, sideline opposition, & weaken civil society [w/ small/subtle changes that] make it hard for supporters of democracy to stop."
Sound familiar? #Authoritarianization
"[Chávez,Putin & Erdogan] stoked widespread discontent to undermine institutional constraints on their power, sideline opposition, & weaken civil society [w/ small/subtle changes that] make it hard for supporters of democracy to stop."
Sound familiar? #Authoritarianization
2/6
"B/c they incrementally dismantle democratic Inst.'n & norms, no single dramatic change triggers widespread mobilization of opposition..often, [leaders] frame vocal critics as destabilizing provocateurs, fragmenting resistance & rendering it ineffective."
Sound familiar?
"B/c they incrementally dismantle democratic Inst.'n & norms, no single dramatic change triggers widespread mobilization of opposition..often, [leaders] frame vocal critics as destabilizing provocateurs, fragmenting resistance & rendering it ineffective."
Sound familiar?
3/6
Source for above tweets is this article is from 2/1/2017: "HOW TODAY'S POPULISM DISMANTLES DEMOCRACY WORLDWIDE"
scholars.org/brief/how-toda…
Source for above tweets is this article is from 2/1/2017: "HOW TODAY'S POPULISM DISMANTLES DEMOCRACY WORLDWIDE"
scholars.org/brief/how-toda…
4/6
🛑Venezuela: Chávez dismantled democratic institutions & expanded his power
🛑Russia: Putin thoroughly consolidated his power. Russia is now an “elected dictatorship.”
🛑Turkey (see next tweet)
Trump & his loyalists are leading the Authoritarianization of America.
🛑Venezuela: Chávez dismantled democratic institutions & expanded his power
🛑Russia: Putin thoroughly consolidated his power. Russia is now an “elected dictatorship.”
🛑Turkey (see next tweet)
Trump & his loyalists are leading the Authoritarianization of America.
5/6
This old tweet summarizes what Erdogan did in Turkey in his process for Authoritarianization of Turkey:
This old tweet summarizes what Erdogan did in Turkey in his process for Authoritarianization of Turkey:
6/6
Elections can be a check on tyranny, but that fails in deeply polarized societies.
"Strongly partisan voters tend to feel so negatively abt the opposing party’s candidates that they're not willing to even consider voting for them." (4/18/2017 article)
nytimes.com/2017/04/18/wor…
Elections can be a check on tyranny, but that fails in deeply polarized societies.
"Strongly partisan voters tend to feel so negatively abt the opposing party’s candidates that they're not willing to even consider voting for them." (4/18/2017 article)
nytimes.com/2017/04/18/wor…
