Presenter
Prakash Pravin - Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, GermanyPanel
37 – Contentious Currents: Non-State Actors, Democratic Decline and Resilience in South AsiaAbstract
Utilizing process tracing methods, the paper contributes to wider discussions on democracy in India, the role played by non-state actors in resisting and driving autocratization processes and how subnational politics can shape broader national trajectories. It contests deterministic accounts of autocratization trajectories, showcasing the potential for grassroots and subnational resilience in the face of an aggrandizing executive at the national level.
