Legal-Administrative Responses and Democratic Deconsolidation

Kim Moloney and Samuel Krislov ()

Public Organization Review, 2016, vol. 16, issue 1, 17-37

Abstract: We deepen our understanding of democratic deconsolidation by understanding the legal-administrative responses to a security crisis. We expand prior “democratic breakdown” studies through a legal-administrative review of three countries which have experienced a security crisis: Peru, South Africa, and the United States. Using Freedom House and Polity IV scores, we discuss the initial crisis and the state’s legal-administrative responses. Different state responses offer a unique micro-political and administrative perspective on when, where, and why deconsolidation may or may not occur. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016

Keywords: Legal-administrative; Public administration; Security crises; Democratic consolidation; Democratic deconsolidation; South Africa; Peru; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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