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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2022

By
Angela B. Cornell
Edited by
Angela B. Cornell  and
Mark Barenberg
Angela B. Cornell
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Mark Barenberg
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York
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Summary

This volume comes together at a time when democracy on a global scale is facing its greatest challenges in eighty years and is under siege in every region of the world by autocratic leaders and parties. After thirty years of steady democratic advances in much of the world during the latter decades of the twentieth century (Huntington 1991; O’Donnell & Schmitter 1986; Roberts 2016), Freedom House has documented a decline in civil and political rights in both newly established and long-standing democratic regimes since the early 2000s, characterizing this trend as “democracy in retreat” on the global stage (Freedom House 2019: 1). This downward spiral continued and intensified over the second decade of the twenty-first century, with autocratic leaders pursuing unchecked power and demonizing political and cultural minorities, producing destabilizing effects around the globe (V-Dem Institute 2021).

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The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy , pp. 1 - 10
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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