18 Citations
Endogenous hybridity: regime change in Venezuela (1998–2020)
- Political ScienceCanadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes
- 2021
ABSTRACT The political movement led by President Hugo Chávez Frías (1998–2013) and his successor, President Nicolás Maduro (2013–present), created an authoritarian regime in Venezuela. We explore two…
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty
- Political ScienceAmerican Political Science Review
- 2022
Do democratic regimes depend on public support to avoid backsliding? Does public support, in turn, respond thermostatically to changes in democracy? Two prominent recent studies (Claassen 2020a;…
Journalism and Democratic Backsliding: Critical Realism as a Diagnostic and Prescription for Reform
- Political SciencePolitical Communication
- 2022
Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond
- Political ScienceDemocratization
- 2022
Social representations of coronavirus/COVID-19 in Italy: Psychosocial anchoring to conspiracy beliefs, vaccine hesitancy, and the psychological dimension
- PsychologyJournal of Pacific Rim Psychology
- 2022
From the societal approach of the Theory of Social Representations, this study aimed to investigate the social representations of coronavirus/COVID-19 among the Italian population. By means of an…
Strengthening the Democratic Project: Information as the Foundation of the Fourth Estate
- Political ScienceOpen Journal of Political Science
- 2022
Studies show that citizen dissatisfaction with democracy is on the rise. Equally, trust in public institutions is on the decline, but despite this, citizens desire to shape the future of society is…
The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations
- PsychologyGovernment and Opposition
- 2022
The storming of the US Capitol building in January 2021 was a presidential attempt at a self-coup. To make the case, this article reviews elements of the Capitol assault and the events leading up…
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence
- EconomicsDemocratization
- 2022
ABSTRACT Why do voters vote for undemocratic politicians in a democracy? My chief contention is that affective polarization has become a primary factor driving support for undemocratic politicians.…