{"title":"The Danger is Real","authors":"Yascha Mounk","doi":"10.1353/jod.2022.0053","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholars who are willing to argue against doom-mongering on the basis of serious evidence and a subtle counternarrative can make a big contribution to political science and the larger public discourse. Sadly, this is not what Jason Brownlee and Kenny Miao offer in \"Why Democracies Survive.\" Instead of joining a grasp of the sources of democratic resilience with a serious examination of current trends in backsliding, they try to revive a consensus that has been long dead for good reason. In prematurely declaring Hungary and the United States examples of \"survival preceded by backsliding,\" they dismiss concerns about the rise of authoritarian populists as \"evidence-resistant 'tyrannophobia.'\" The events of recent years make it painfully clear that it is naïve to assume that countries such as the United States are virtually certain to remain democracies.","PeriodicalId":48227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Democracy","volume":"33 1","pages":"150 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Democracy","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2022.0053","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Scholars who are willing to argue against doom-mongering on the basis of serious evidence and a subtle counternarrative can make a big contribution to political science and the larger public discourse. Sadly, this is not what Jason Brownlee and Kenny Miao offer in "Why Democracies Survive." Instead of joining a grasp of the sources of democratic resilience with a serious examination of current trends in backsliding, they try to revive a consensus that has been long dead for good reason. In prematurely declaring Hungary and the United States examples of "survival preceded by backsliding," they dismiss concerns about the rise of authoritarian populists as "evidence-resistant 'tyrannophobia.'" The events of recent years make it painfully clear that it is naïve to assume that countries such as the United States are virtually certain to remain democracies.
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Since its inception in 1990, the Journal of Democracy has become an influential international forum for scholarly analysis and competing democratic viewpoints. Its articles have been cited in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and widely reprinted in many languages. Focusing exclusively on democracy, the Journal monitors and analyzes democratic regimes and movements in scores of countries around the world. Each issue features a unique blend of scholarly analysis, reports from democratic activists, updates on news and elections, and reviews of important recent books.
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