democratic backsliding en · NOUN
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(uncountable) Gradual decline in the quality and robustness of democracy, especially following an initial rise in democracy.
But judges, law students, economists, human rights experts, and Mexico’s most important trading partners worry [the judicial reform] could lead to democratic backsliding – and macroeconomic turbulence – that the incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum will inherit when she takes office Oct. 1.
2024 August 29, Whitney Eulich, “Why Mexican judicial reform is causing a rift with the US”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
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cmn 民主倒退 (Translations) · ka ავტოკრატიზაცია (Translations) · de Rückschritte in der Demokratie (Translations) · ka დემოკრატიული დაღმასვლა (Translations) · ka დემოკრატიული უკუსვლა (Translations) · fi autokratisoituminen (Translations) · fi demokratian taantuminen (Translations)