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Democracy as Political Ground State: Backsliding as Attractor Basin Weakening and Authoritarianism as Wrong Attractor

Rincón, D. · 2026 · Zenodo · political ground state

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We apply the displacement framework to democracy and democratic backsliding, formalizing liberal democracy as political ground state S0 whose attractor basin is progressively weakened by institutional erosion, norm dissolution, and autocratic wrong attractor consolidation.

displacement framework · democracy · authoritarianism · wrong attractor · ground state · democratic backsliding

Read the deposit on Zenodo →doi 10.5281/zenodo.20407277

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