Why India’s Democracy Is Dying

IF 4.3 1区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Democracy Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1353/jod.2023.a900438

M. Tudor

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Abstract

Abstract:India exemplifies the global democratic recession. India’s recent downgrade to a hybrid regime is a major influence on the world’s autocratization. And the modality of India’s democratic decline reveals how democracies die today: not through a dramatic coup or midnight arrests of opposition leaders, but instead, it moves through the fully legal harassment of the opposition, intimidation of media, and centralization of executive power. By equating government criticism with disloyalty to the nation, the government of Narendra Modi is diminishing the very idea that opposition is legitimate. India today is no longer the world’s largest democracy.

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为什么印度的民主正在消亡

摘要：印度是全球民主衰退的典型代表。印度最近降级为混合政权，这对世界的独裁统治产生了重大影响。印度民主衰落的模式揭示了民主国家今天是如何消亡的：不是通过戏剧性的政变或午夜逮捕反对派领导人，而是通过对反对派的完全合法骚扰、对媒体的恐吓和行政权力的集中。纳伦德拉·莫迪政府将政府的批评等同于对国家的不忠，从而削弱了反对派合法性的观念。今天的印度不再是世界上最大的民主国家。

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Journal of Democracy POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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6.30

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6.50%

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期刊介绍： Since its inception in 1990, the Journal of Democracy has become an influential international forum for scholarly analysis and competing democratic viewpoints. Its articles have been cited in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and widely reprinted in many languages. Focusing exclusively on democracy, the Journal monitors and analyzes democratic regimes and movements in scores of countries around the world. Each issue features a unique blend of scholarly analysis, reports from democratic activists, updates on news and elections, and reviews of important recent books.