Javier Pérez Sandoval Reveals Democracy’s Hidden Vulnerability: The Hollowing of the State
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Javier Pérez Sandoval discusses the implications of state capacity on democracy and how populist leaders can undermine it.
By dismantling certain capacities today, you're making the democratic choices of tomorrow harder. Javier Pérez Sandoval In this episode, Javier Pérez Sandoval discusses his Journal of Democracy essay, coauthored with Andrés Mejía Acosta, on why populist leaders often “hollow out” the state. Moving beyond familiar debates about executive aggrandizement and democratic backsliding, Pérez Sandoval argues that democracy depends on the state’s capacity to deliver essential public goods – from healt...
People in this episode
Host: Justin Kempf
Guest: Javier Pérez Sandoval
Topics covered
- democracy
- populism
- state capacity
- public goods
- political science
Keywords
- democracy
- hollowing out
- populist leaders
- state capacity
- public goods
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Journal of Democracy
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