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As perhaps one of the best known and examined cases of democratic backsliding, it comes as no surprise that Turkey under Erdoğan is home to a media landscape possessing a number of criteria indicative …
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Democratic peace theory, one of the closest semblances to an empirical law in international relations, espouses quite simply that democracies are unlikely to go to war with one another. This seems to …
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In How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt spend Chapter 6 assessing norms in American politics. In particular, they characterize norms as unwritten rules which mediate, "The disparity …
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