DEMOCRATIC RESILIENCE AND ITS RELATED CHALLENGES

Abstract

Democratic resilience has recently attracted considerable attention in contemporary political thought, as well as practice. It is due to the (in)capacity of the democratic political systems to resist and withstand attacks on its institutions and values. By elaborating recent challenges to democratic resilience and by understanding the origins of the attacks and threats against democracies, policymakers can properly and timely protect democratic institutions, values, and practices. This work, in that sense, focuses the attention to such external (but also inherent) influences that pose threats to the democratic system and the manner in which they are interwoven. We particularly treat disinformation, populism, polarization, illiberalism and economic inequality as such considerable threats.