abstract: Democratic regression," the "retreat of western liberalism," the "return" or "renaissance" of authoritarianism or the "third wave of autocratization" -these are some the many labels for diverse phenomena -or problems of authority -that plague societies in the Global North and South.Commonly, such problems of authority are specified as pathological practices of corruption or institutional defects, deviant forms of governance or pathological symptoms of representation and participation.Their seman
journal: Journal of Illiberalism Studies