Assessing the Risk of Democratic Reversal in the United States: A Reply to Kurt Weyland

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dc.contributor.authorLopez, Matias
dc.contributor.authorPablo Luna, Juan
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-10T13:45:00Z
dc.date.available2024-01-10T13:45:00Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractBy replying to Kurt Weyland's (2020) comparative study of populism, we revisit optimistic perspectives on the health of American democracy in light of existing evidence. Relying on a set-theoretical approach, Weyland concludes that populists succeed in subverting democracy only when institutional weakness and conjunctural misfortune are observed jointly in a polity, thereby conferring on the United States immunity to democratic reversal. We challenge this conclusion on two grounds. First, we argue that the focus on institutional dynamics neglects the impact of the structural conditions in which institutions are embedded, such as inequality, racial cleavages, and changing political attitudes among the public. Second, we claim that endogeneity, coding errors, and the (mis)use of Boolean algebra raise questions about the accuracy of the analysis and its conclusions. Although we are skeptical of crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis as an adequate modeling choice, we replicate the original analysis and find that the paths toward democratic backsliding and continuity are both potentially compatible with the United States.
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2024-04-18
dc.format.extent6 páginas
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1049096521000329
dc.identifier.eissn1537-5935
dc.identifier.issn1049-0965
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521000329
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/78969
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000665112900006
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Historia, Geografía y Ciencia Política; Luna Farina, Juan Pablo; S/I; 1004187
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido completo
dc.pagina.final426
dc.pagina.inicio421
dc.publisherCAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
dc.revistaPS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subject.ods10 Reduced Inequality
dc.subject.odspa10 Reducción de las desigualdades
dc.titleAssessing the Risk of Democratic Reversal in the United States: A Reply to Kurt Weyland
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen54
sipa.codpersvinculados1004187
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadCarga SIPA;09-01-2024
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