Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/jod.2023.a900434
T. Remington
Abstract:The basic premise of liberalism, that a market economy and liberal democracy are mutually reinforcing, is under attack. High inequality, deep dislocations due to globalization and technology advances, and right-wing populism threaten it. But much of what is called liberalism is a neoliberal project that has dominated policymaking since the early 1980s. The rebuilding of the German economy after the Second World War shows that an entirely different model of liberalism, embodied in the “social market economy” ideal, is possible. For liberalism to work, however, we must recognize that a market economy serves society and not the other way around, and that competition in the market arena and political arena helps preserve freedom.
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{"title":"Symposium: Is India Still a Democracy?","authors":"T. Editors","doi":"10.1353/jod.0.a900323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.0.a900323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Democracy","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45405801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why India's Democracy Is Dying","authors":"M. Tudor","doi":"10.1353/jod.0.a900324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.0.a900324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Democracy","volume":"1 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41995397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jod.2023.a900441
Rahul Verma
Abstract:Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s democracy has been downgraded to a “flawed democracy” and an “electoral autocracy” by democracy watchdogs. Some argue that--despite claims of deteriorating civil liberties and institutional autonomy--these measures provide and exaggerated portrayal of backsliding. Under the BJP, India's political system has evolved from a coalition-based to a BJP-dominant system. This system has resulted in increased voter turnout but with increasingly centralized party control. Distrust has escalated, polarizing politics and prompting street protests. While some see the BJP’s rule as a form of right-wing populism, citizens express satisfaction with democracy. India’s unique context demands a fresh analytical framework to comprehend the dynamics of democratic challenges under BJP rule. As nationalist-populist leaders remake their countries’ politics to conform to their ideological worldview, the line between disagreement and dissent will remain thin.
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{"title":"Why India's Political Elites Are to Blame","authors":"Vineeta Yadav","doi":"10.1353/jod.0.a900328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.0.a900328","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Democracy","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136172786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jod.2023.a900440
Š. Ganguly
Abstract:This essay argues that a number of the policies that the current, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government in India is pursuing threaten to rend the very fabric of India's democracy. Its policies toward press freedoms, civil liberties, and judicial independence are all profoundly inimical to the functioning of a democratic state. Unless these policies are checked or reversed the future of India’s democracy may well be imperiled.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jod.2023.a900439
Tripurdaman Singh
Abstract:India is now widely considered to be drifting into the realm of “electoral autocracy,” steadily falling lower in democracy indices, with study after study seemingly confirming the erosion of the country’s democratic credentials since Narendra Modi took power in 2014. But this, this essay argues, is an ahistorical contention that rests on shaky political and constitutional foundations, and suffers from a high degree of temporal myopia. An historical perspective would suggest that Indian democracy remains within the broad continuum it has inhabited since 1950, and that there is little to indicate that this continuum is anything but intact.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jod.2023.a900442
Vineeta Yadav
Abstract:Is India experiencing democratic backsliding? Given the country’s prior history as a flawed democracy, the answer to this question requires that we discriminate carefully between two possibilities. First, that the current state of Indian democracy is just the continuation and culmination of a longer trend of democratic decline. Second, that the extent and nature of democratic decline in post-2013 India is a significant rupture from the long-term trend, and represents accelerating decline into backsliding. This evaluates extant evidence and finds it supports the second explanation. It then analyzes original data from a survey of Indian politicians to further examine the validity of this conclusion, and concludes that the low level of political support among BJP politicians for fundamental democratic values and institutions is driving backsliding in India.
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