17:45 - 20:00
Thursday-Panel
Chair/s:
Daniel Gingerich
Discussant/s:
Sebastian Juhl
Meeting Room F

Daniel Gingerich, Jan Vogler
Self-Government Interrupted: Legacies of External Rule in Brazil and Poland

Marc S. Jacob
Citizens, Parties, Institutions: A Three-Stage Model of Democratic Backsliding

Gabriele Gratton, Barton Lee
Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies

Viktoriia Semenova
Institutional Manipulation in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Effects on Candidate Behavior

Kristen Kao
Fragmented Sovereignty After Conflict: A Survey Experiment in Iraq
Self-Government Interrupted: Legacies of External Rule in Brazil and Poland
Daniel Gingerich, Jan Vogler
University of Virginia

Which consequences do sustained interruptions in local self-government have for subsequent periods of democratic engagement? In this study, we develop a theoretical framework of how interruptions in self-government influence citizens’ ability to recognize transgressions of democratic norms and engage in electoral behavior or other forms of collective action against the perpetrators. Our theory suggests that, even long after self-government has been formally restored, previous sustained interruptions in self-government can damage citizens’ ability to recognize and respond to transgressions of democratic rules by governments. In the empirical test, we examine the consequences interruptions of local self-government by the central government in Brazil as well as interruptions in self-government across Poland by external powers.