The (In)Stability of Democracy

Pub. Date
31 May, 2022
Pub. Type
National Institute Economic Review

External Authors

Ghosal, Sayantan

Proto, Eugenio

Related Themes

Political Economy

JEL Code

D74, O12, H11

Journal

National Institute Economic Review, No. 259, Vol. Winter, Pages: 62-66

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

External Resources

https://doi.org/10.1017/nie.2022.9

How stable are democracies? Building on Ghosal and Proto (2009, Journal of Public Economics, 93, 1078–1089), the conditions under which democracies are stable are analyzed. How these conditions relate to the threat of the rise of right wing populism poses to democracies is discussed.

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