International Collaborative Research on Democratic Regress, Renewal, and Resilience

这个项目旨在了解世界不同国家的民主是如何随着时间的推移而演变的，特别是比较拉丁美洲国家和东亚国家的民主变化。共同私人投资在2022年3月9日在斯坦福大学举行的一个题为“东南亚的民主、发展和法治”的研讨会上发表了研究报告，该研讨会由国际和平协会与斯坦福大学的研究人员合作组织和共同主持。由联合PIS提交的研究揭示了几个将为我们的项目未来发展提供参考的发现：君主制在东南亚的“独裁”中起着关键作用，总统的受欢迎程度强烈影响菲律宾立法者的政策立场，以及在罗德里戈·杜特尔特领导下的民主倒退期间菲律宾政党制度的加速瓦解。PIS发表了一篇研究文章，从全球角度审视了自1970年以来全球所有民主国家民主倒退的原因，并指出民粹主义高管对民主特别危险。联合作者Kasuya发表了两篇与这项研究相关的文章：一篇文章分析了菲律宾的民主倒退和非自由主义态度，另一篇文章研究了政治制度如何影响从选举威权主义向民主的过渡。此外，研究小组成员还在学术会议和特邀演讲中提交了工作论文。

This project aims to understand how democracy evolves over time in different countries around the world, with a particular emphasis on the comparison of democratic change in Latin American countries and East Asian countries.The co-PIs presented research at a workshop on “Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia” held at Stanford University on March 9, 2022, which was organized and co-chaired by the PI in collaboration with Stanford researchers. The research presented by the co-PIs revealed several findings that will inform our project going forward: monarchies play a crucial role in “autocratization” in Southeast Asia, presidential popularity strongly influences Philippine legislators’ policy positions, and the disintegration of the Philippine political party system accelerated during the democratic backsliding under Rodrigo Duterte.The PI published a research article that examines the causes of democratic backsliding across all democratic countries worldwide since 1970 and identifies populist executives as particularly dangerous for democracy, from a global perspective. Co-PI Yuko Kasuya published two articles related to this research: One article analyzes democratic backsliding and illiberal attitudes in the Philippines and another article examines how political institutions affect transitions from electoral authoritarianism to democracy. In addition, members of the research team presented working papers at academic conferences and invited talks.