Democracy and its Fragility : Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium (Hardcover)

Introduction: the ‘super-election’ year and the timeliness of democratic fragility.??Chapter 1. Democracy: the contemporary understandings.??Chapter 2. Democracy: a fragile notion.??Chapter 3. A fool’s errand? Quantifying democratic fragility.??Chapter 4. Declining press freedom as a source of democratic fragility in Japan.??Chapter 5. Causes and sources of South Korea’s fragile democracy.??Chapter 6. Screening Indian democratic fragility: the question of press freedom.??Chapter 7. Fragility of post-conflict consociational democracies: Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia in the quest for democratic stability.??Chapter 8. Black chronicle: criminal state capture and democratic fragility in Montenegro.??Chapter 9. Endemic fragility? The case of consociational power-sharing in Lebanon.??Chapter 10. Pressure from new churches and the fragility of Kenyan democracy.??Chapter 11. Dwindling democratic dividends and democratic fragility in Nigeria.??Chapter 12. Societal cracks expressed through la grieta. Political polarization and democratic fragility in Argentina.??Chapter 13. Fake news and fragility. Bolsonaro and the Supreme Federal Court in the pendulum of Brazilian democracy.??Chapter 14. Criminal governance and democratic fragility in Mexico.??Chapter 15. Polarization, partisanship, and democratic fragility in the United States of America.??Conclusions