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A new game in town: Democratic resilience and the added value of the concept in explaining democratic survival and decline

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  • Johannes Helgest

    (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

  • Lion Merten

    (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

  • Jana Niedringhaus

    (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

  • Matthias Rosenthal

    (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

  • Kevin Walz

    (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Abstract

Resilience has become a hot topic in research due to impactful events and processes such as the global climate crisis or the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, research linking resilience with democratic processes is still spread thin. This paper aims at contributing to this field of research by examining the concepts of resilience throughout various disciplines and applying it to the context of democracies, building on recent advances in this field. In our view democratic resilience is best understood as a democratic system’s capacity to process upcoming stressors, using various sources of resilience on different levels of the system. In doing so, these capacities can moderate the extent to which a certain stressor poses a threat to the system. We argue that in comparison with traditional approaches such as democratic consolidation the concept of democratic resilience holds significant added value. This is due to the dynamic character of the concept which enables a more fine-grained understanding of democratic survival and decline.

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  • Johannes Helgest & Lion Merten & Jana Niedringhaus & Matthias Rosenthal & Kevin Walz, 2022. "A new game in town: Democratic resilience and the added value of the concept in explaining democratic survival and decline," Working Papers 2206, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
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