CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Uyar, Mehmet Han Fatih |
|---|---|
| Title | Connecting Democratic Stock to Democratic Resilience: Autocratization in Turkey and Venezuela |
| Summary | Turkey and Venezuela are two outlier cases which have relatively high democratic stock (previous democratic experience) but surprisingly low levels of democracy today. This study attempts to answer why these countries’ democratic stock could not turn into democratic resilience in the face of autocratization, leading to their democratic breakdown. To explain the causal chain, this paper argues that after two outsiders, Erdoğan and Chávez, got elected in a context that delegitimized the existing political systems, the undemocratic behaviour of the opposition and the establishment elites further legitimized the two leaders’ attacks on checks and balances in the eyes of many academics, intellectuals, and people. Until around the last decade, autocratization was misinterpreted as democratization in both countries, and this eventually decreased the democratic resilience of these countries against autocratization. This work is a hypothesis-generating comparative case study that provides a parallel demonstration of the theory with the help of academic literature, online sources, and public opinion surveys to understand the perception of scholars, intellectuals, and the public. |
| Supervisor | Bozóki, András |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/uyar_mehmet-han.pdf |
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