Much recent political commentary suggests that a “backlash,” “revolt,” or “counter-revolution” is unfolding against liberal constitutional democracy (e.g., Eatwell & Goodwin, 2018; Galston, 2020; Mounk, Norris Inglehart, 2019; Zielonka, 2018). As generalizable observation about contemporary politics, this diagnosis perhaps unduly alarmist Przeworski, 2019). In some countries, however, sustained...

the aim of this research is to scrutinize the effects of democratic regional organizations on democratization. we will scrutinize regional organizations regardless of their functional time and space. but attending the democratic feature that was regarded, we will concentrate mainly on the last three decades. after studying democratization process and represent subjects on democratic regional or...

This paper examines a key concept of democratic experimentalism, asking what is a “democratic experiment”? Starting with Donald Campbell’s argument in favor of an experimenting society, the paper critically examines whether randomized controlled experiments should be the gold standard for democratic experimentalism. This tradition of experimentalism, it is argued, values the verification of kno...