Authoritarian backsliding and forms of resistance 1
Recent developments Eastern Europe have been examined in different ways, as an illustration of autocratic legalism (Scheppele 2018), democratic backsliding (Cianetti, Dawson, and Hanley 2018; Waldner and Lust 2018; Bernhard 2021), an expression of the populist uprising (Bodnar 2018) or a counter-revolution against liberal democracy (Sajó 2021; Krastev and Holmes 2019). These phenomena however are not limited solely to post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and can be found – to different degrees – across the entire EU polity. This panel examines the different forms of authoritarian backsliding and the processes of resistance they encounter from social and civil rights activists, various professional groups and the broader civil society.
