Well that’s annoying. This was the song that was supposed to go with #normerosion #polisciwordoftheday
Anyway, enjoy it while reading about norm erosion to a picture of my dog Bufo 🐸 eroding norms of his own.
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When norm violations go unpunished and then normalized, institutional guardrails fail quietly, making later abuses of power appear lawful, inevitable, and even justified.
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Once norms lose their binding force, actors can exploit legal authority in illiberal ways, accelerating democratic backsliding without overt regime change.
Norm erosion is how democratic decline becomes invisible—because nothing illegal has happened yet.
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Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt argue, democracies often decay not through coups or constitutional rupture but through the steady normalization of norm violations, which hollow out institutions while preserving their formal appearance.
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Norm erosion refers to the gradual breakdown of informal democratic norms—such as mutual toleration, institutional forbearance, and respect for unwritten rules—that constrain political actors beyond formal law.
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Eroding norms and emerging threats: the evolving challenge of chemical and biological weapons
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Yet over the last 15 years, the world has witnessed the most sustained use of these horrific weapons. And ...
4/9 Trump has normalized previously unthinkable ideas through repetition. In this term alone, he's already challenged birthright citizenship, bypassed Congress on spending, purged military leadership, and punished dissent.
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