Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables xii
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 What Is Democratic Erosion? 16
8. Part I. Economic and Political Contexts
9. 2 What’s behind the Wave of Democratic Erosion? 37
10. 3 The Right-Wing Ethnonationalists 52
11. 4 The Left-Wing Populists 96
12. Part II. Backsliders and Voters
13. 5 Polarization and Trash Talk: Theory 119
14. 6 Polarization and Trash Talk: Evidence 141
15. 7 Psychological Bases of Support for Backsliders 159
16. Part III Resistance and Repair
17. 8 Strategies to Stop (and Reverse) Erosion 185
18. References 215
19. Index 233
20. A note on the type 241