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EURA Conversation #81
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Conversation #81
CITIES AGAINST DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING
by Marta Lackowska , University of Warsaw, Poland
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As early as 2019, Lührmann and Lindberg wrote about the third wave of democratic backsliding as a worldwide problem. Unfortunately, since then we have experienced further anti-democratic developments in numerous countries. Slowly but surely, local government and urban researchers have started to notice and analyze the linkage between democratic backsliding and “subsidiarity backsliding” – i.e. the fact that sliding towards any kind of authoritarian regime usually implies limiting the power of local governments, as potential rivals for political influence. In these cases, not only does democratic backsliding limit cities’ competence and ability to undertake local democratic action, it also [Keep reading...]
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