Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Author "Auerbach, Kiran Rose"
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Accountable to whom? How strong parties subvert local democratic institutions
Auerbach, Kiran Rose (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How do politicians in emerging democracies subvert institutional reforms that are designed to improve accountability? Looking at patron-client relations within political parties, I present a strategy, partisan accountability, ... -
Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic Skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe
Auerbach, Kiran Rose; Petrova, Bilyana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Survey research has revealed that post-communist citizens are skeptical towards democracy. Despite a substantial body of literature that has researched the origins and determinants of these attitudes, consensus has not yet ... -
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison
Auerbach, Kiran Rose; Kartner, Jennifer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Recent democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe challenges the optimism of two decades of scholarship on post-communist democratization. The most severe form of backsliding—state capture by ruling parties—has occurred in ...