Publikationen der StiftungOpposition and resilience strategies against democratic backsliding
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  • This report contributes to a “democratic playbook” to address the thorny dilemmas of reversing democratic backsliding in contemporary democracies. It presents a conceptual framework and key strategies for democracy defenders to resist, defeat, and recover from democratic backsliding, with emphasis on two key areas: pernicious polarization, and opposition confusion and regime uncertainty. The authors draw out the policy implications from new theories of democratic resistance and depolarization, and identify key takeaways from empirical research and four illustrative case studies included in the report: Moldova, Poland, Serbia and Turkey. The report explains the dynamics of contemporary democratic backsliding and how the concept of regime uncertainty – competing interpretations about the degree of threat to the democracy – undermines opposition unity. It shows how democratic backsliding is often associated with pernicious political polarization, and how two strategies can combat it: active depolarization in early stages and transformative repolarization in more advanced stages.