Brownbag Seminar: Antonio Nicolò
13:00 - 7 October 2026
Title: It can’t happen here: Democratic Backsliding and the Complacency Trap
Authors: Edoardo Grillo and Antonio Nicolò
Abstract:
We study how institutions and citizens interact to restrain the executive in a model of democratic backsliding. We show that this interaction can generate a complacency trap. When democratic institutions appear...
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