Analyses of consolidation and internal crisis need to complement each other to better explain the change within a democracy. This article integrates, revises, and develops the results of the existing literature starting from the empirical results of a systematic, comparative empirical research on the Southern European countries. The main theoretical conclusion concerns the salience of the process of democratic anchoring, when consolidation is considered, and de-anchoring with reference to crisis. The different sections of the article analyze the notions of anchors, anchoring, and de-anchoring; the connections with legitimation, democratic consolidation, and crisis; the patterns of consolidation and crisis building in the four Southern European cases; and the explanations and the theoretical background of anchoring and de-anchoring. The concluding remarks illustrate the possible research developments with reference to other areas and the salience of anchoring for every democracy.

Anchors and Democratic Change / Morlino, Leonardo. - In: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES. - ISSN 0010-4140. - 38:7(2005), pp. 743-770. [10.1177/0010414004274401]

Anchors and Democratic Change

MORLINO, LEONARDO
2005

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Analyses of consolidation and internal crisis need to complement each other to better explain the change within a democracy. This article integrates, revises, and develops the results of the existing literature starting from the empirical results of a systematic, comparative empirical research on the Southern European countries. The main theoretical conclusion concerns the salience of the process of democratic anchoring, when consolidation is considered, and de-anchoring with reference to crisis. The different sections of the article analyze the notions of anchors, anchoring, and de-anchoring; the connections with legitimation, democratic consolidation, and crisis; the patterns of consolidation and crisis building in the four Southern European cases; and the explanations and the theoretical background of anchoring and de-anchoring. The concluding remarks illustrate the possible research developments with reference to other areas and the salience of anchoring for every democracy.
2005
consolidation, crisis, change, anchoring, legitimacy.
Anchors and Democratic Change / Morlino, Leonardo. - In: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES. - ISSN 0010-4140. - 38:7(2005), pp. 743-770. [10.1177/0010414004274401]
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