title: Political crises as challenges to democracy: Will it be possible to avoid “confidence traps” again?
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metadata.value: Kuznetsov, Igor I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-06-01T20:14:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-06-01T20:14:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kuznetsov I. I. Political crises as challenges to democracy: Will it be possible to avoid “confidence traps” again? Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2021, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 103–111.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2021.108
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/29127
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The development of democratic political systems inevitably presupposes dealing with crises. The
  challenges of democracy are both external factors associated with the activity of other political regimes,
  changes in the world order, and internal factors determined by a combination of socio-economic
  and political aspects. Often, such internal factors become critical and can determine a
  dangerous state — the “confidence trap”. The article discusses the concept of the Cambridge
  political scientist David Runcimen, which expresses firm confidence in the ability of democracies
  to overcome the crisis with dignity and preparedness for new tests. The seven main crises of democracy
  of the twentieth century highlighted by Runcimen are events that influenced the nature
  of the functioning of democratic systems. In addition, overcoming these crises has demonstrated
  the presence of a serious resource for the strength of political and social institutions, the formation
  of survival and reflection skills in the state system. The most important challenges to democracy are: war (the tendency of democracies to be drawn into military confrontation, which can result
  in serious costs), finance (irrational use of public funds), environmental threat (climate change
  due to vigorous economic activity, depletion of resources), rivals (activities of those states, which
  can seriously limit the expansion of democracy). Special attention is paid to assessing the role of
  China and Russia in the formation of the “confidence trap” of modern democracies.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 17; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political crises
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: democracy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political development
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political process
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transformation of democratic institutions in politics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Political crises as challenges to democracy: Will it be possible to avoid “confidence traps” again?
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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