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This paper aims at advancing our understanding of how populism impacts completely different fashions of democracy and exams the proposed arguments empirically. Building on the large scholarly literature on populism and democracy, we take inventory of current arguments and theorize which democratic fashions may be affected by populism in a positive or a adverse way. Moreover, we transfer beyond the normative debate and analyse the impact of populism in power on different models of democracy empirically. We accomplish that by merging knowledge on populist governments in Europe and Latin America from the 1995 till today with the Varieties of Democracy information set, which enables us to seize the connection between populism and different democratic models in these regions...

While it’s clear that contemporary authoritarian incumbents use democratic emulation as a technique in the hopes of stabilizing and increasing their tenure in power, this doesn’t imply it’s all the time effective. Indeed, an extant literature presents robust evidence that the opening of the pursuit of power to electoral competition can make authoritarianism susceptible. Unless it’s mediated by other elements, democratic emulation by authoritarian incumbents can’t concurrently each stabilize their rule and make it extra weak to democratic transitions. Some students argue that reiterated multiparty competitive elections current a gradual path from authoritarianism to democracy.

Social scientists and practitioners have been restricted in their work by the paucity of information about subnati...