For the past decade and a half, the world has witnessed a precipitous decline of democratic countries and the consequent rise of aurats.
How Aurats Rise: Sequences of Democratic Backsliding
challenges the conventional wisdom and offers an institutional-ideological approach to understand the phenomenon, examines the steps of emergent aurats, and analyzes the methods of legitimizing their rules. Employing the new framework, the book provides incisive analyses of four countries located in four different regions with dissimilar national features – Bangladesh, Bolivia, Hungary, and Turkey, and demonstrates that political developments in these countries have followed a similar, specific pattern resulting in various shades of auracy. Theoretically enriched and empirically grounded, this exceptionally timely book makes significant contribution to the democratic backsliding literature while offering insights on how to forestall an auratic era.