Ademocratic transition describes a phase in a country'spolitical system as a result of an ongoing change from anauthoritarian regime to ademocratic one.[1][2][3] The process is known asdemocratisation, political changes moving in a democratic direction.[4]Democratization waves have been linked to sudden shifts in the distribution of power among the great powers, which created openings and incentives to introduce sweeping domestic reforms.[5][6] Although transitional regimes experience more civil unrest,[7][8] they may be considered stable in a transitional phase for decades at a time.[9][10][11] Since the end of theCold War transitional regimes have become the most common form of government.[12][13] Scholarly analysis of the decorative nature of democratic institutions concludes that the oppositedemocratic backsliding (autocratization), a transition to authoritarianism is the most prevalent basis of modernhybrid regimes.[14][15][16]
The decline of democratic regime attributes – autocratization
Backsliding entails deterioration of qualities associated with democratic governance, within any regime. In democratic regimes, it is a decline in the quality of democracy; in autocracies, it is a decline in democratic qualities of governance.
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