IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v12y2023i4p238-d1125143.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

January 6 th and De-Democratization in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Ernesto Castañeda

    (Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, Immigration Lab, Department of Sociology, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA)

  • Daniel Jenks

    (Immigration Lab, Department of Sociology, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA)

Abstract

The events of January 6 th were a clear example of threats to American democracy. De-democratization is a process that preceded Trump’s election and that can still be seen in the United States and around the world. Social theorist Charles Tilly wrote about how becoming a democracy is not a unidirectional, one-time event or goal, but a non-linear process. This paper analyzes developments in the United States that signal rises and falls in the level of democracy over the last several decades. It discusses Donald Trump’s rise to power, the insurrection on January 6 th , 2021, and the state of inclusion of ethnoracial minorities in the United States. It uses Tilly’s proposed processes of democratization and de-democratization. This more nuanced understanding of democracy and state–society relations helps avoid celebratory stances about the promise of electoral politics as well as pessimistic assessments about the imminent arrival of fascism and authoritarianism.

Suggested Citation

  • Ernesto Castañeda & Daniel Jenks, 2023. "January 6 th and De-Democratization in the United States," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-15, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:4:p:238-:d:1125143
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/4/238/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/4/238/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Zhaotian Luo & Adam Przeworski, 2023. "Democracy and its Vulnerabilities: Dynamics of Democratic Backsliding," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 18(1), pages 105-130, February.
    2. Ernesto Castañeda & Amber Shemesh, 2020. "Overselling Globalization: The Misleading Conflation of Economic Globalization and Immigration, and the Subsequent Backlash," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-31, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Metasari Kartika & Husna Amalya Melati & Yudithya Ratih, 2020. "The Development Of Corak Insang Weaving Craft Creative Economy In Pontianak City," Malaysian E Commerce Journal (MECJ), Zibeline International Publishing, vol. 4(2), pages 60-62, October.
    2. Daile Lynn Rung, 2023. "COVID-19 and Policy-Induced Inequalities: Exploring How Social and Economic Exclusions Impact ‘Temporary’ Migrant Men’s Health and Wellbeing in Australia," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(13), pages 1-15, June.
    3. Milena Doytcheva, 2021. "Diversity as Immigration Governmentality: Insights from France," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-19, June.
    4. Diana Lestari & Made Setini & Dio Caisar Darma & Siti Amalia, 2020. "International trade in the Covid-19 outbreak: Is the digital economy working?," International Journal of Business and Management, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, vol. 8(2), pages 86-92, November.
    5. Cleveland, Mark & McCutcheon, Georgia, 2022. "‘Antiglobalscapes’: A cross-national investigation of the nature and precursors of consumers’ apprehensions towards globalization," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 170-184.
    6. Delgado-Vega, Álvaro, 2024. "Persistence in power of long-lived parties," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    7. Jack A. Goldstone, 2024. "You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 200(3), pages 457-472, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:4:p:238-:d:1125143. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.