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Ian Millhiser called it a "worst-case scenario for liberal democracy". [95] Steven Greenhut argues the theory is a prescription for abuse and authoritarianism. [ 32 ] David Driesen argues that unitary control over the executive is a defining characteristic of autocracy. [ 31 ]
Democratic backsliding [a] is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
In 2021, the Swedish political research institute Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) lowered India's ranking from flawed democracy to electoral autocracy, citing alleged increasing nationalist rhetoric and diminishing freedom of expression under the government of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"As authoritarian and repressive regimes deploy technologies to undermine democracy and human rights, we need to ensure that technology sustains and supports democratic values and norms," he said ...
Guided democracy, also called directed democracy [110] and managed democracy, [111] [112] is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian government or, in some cases, as an autocratic government. [113] Such hybrid regimes are legitimized by elections, but do not change the state's policies, motives, and goals ...
Most concerning, authoritarian leaders use digital authoritarianism to persecute those who think differently. External forces are helping Caracas and other autocratic governments in Latin America ...
Democratic consolidation is the process by which a new democracy matures, in a way that it becomes unlikely to revert to authoritarianism without an external shock, and is regarded as the only available system of government within a country.
According to the 2020 report of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Hungary had by 2019 become the first-ever EU member state to become an authoritarian regime. [27] On Freedom House's annual report, Hungary's democracy rating dropped for ten consecutive years. [ 28 ]