Policy Compliance in Democratic Backsliding

Compliance with public policy is crucial for the implementation of official policy decisions. Democratic backsliding, among other implications, undermines policy decisions made by the government, therefore opens up legitimacy for non-compliance among different policy targets, including implementing actors, firms, and the public at large.
This panel aims at exploring how democratic backsliding, and its varied manifestations influence on the willingness, and the actual, compliance of policy targets. The panel seeks papers that advance compliance research and is committed to theoretical and methodological pluralism and welcomes contributions from different conceptual frameworks, various analytic approaches, and diverse research designs that explore the current developments in policy compliance around the globe. Our aim is facilitating a wide-ranging discussion of compliance and the role of public servants for it. The workshop invites both experienced and junior researchers to propose theory-based papers that shed light on the blind spots of compliance and implementation of public policy during democratic backsliding.