Journal article
Why India’s democracy is dying
- Abstract:
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India exemplifies the global democratic recession. India’s recent downgrade to a hybrid regime is a major influence on the world’s autocratization. And the modality of India’s democratic decline reveals how democracies die today: not through a dramatic coup or midnight arrests of opposition leaders, but instead, it moves through the fully legal harassment of the opposition, intimidation of media, and centralization of executive power. By equating government criticism with disloyalty to the nation, the government of Narendra Modi is diminishing the very idea that opposition is legitimate. India today is no longer the world’s largest democracy.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 292.6KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1353/jod.2023.a900438
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- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Democracy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 34
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 121-132
- Publication date:
- 2023-07-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-07-01
- DOI:
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1086-3214
- ISSN:
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1045-5736
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2030330
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pubs:2030330
- Deposit date:
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2024-09-16
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- Copyright holder:
- National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2023 National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Johns Hopkins University Press at https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jod.2023.a900438
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