This book argues that the backsliding or stagnation of democracy
should be interpreted in a wider perspective on irregular movements
towards and away from contemporary liberal democracy. This a
perspective couched by a metaphor, namely the 'pendulum of
democracy', which the author has constructed to suggest that
democratic regimes may swing between a democratic end (fully
developed liberal democracy) and a semi-authoritarian end
(competitive authoritarianism). The pendulum does not have a
predictable frequency. Democratization may lead to irregular
movements back and forth. It is easier to analyze such movements of
the pendulum when democracy is not consolidated yet (for instance,
in the three post-Yugoslav political regimes mentioned above), as
democratic institutions and processes are not yet stable. For this
reason, this book analyses the swing of unconsolidated democracy
away from the democratic end in the cases of today’s Serbia and
Montenegro and the swing back towards liberal democracy in the case
of North Macedonia which - until 2017 - had been developing into a
competitive authoritarian regime, but then embarked on the road to
democratic recovery.
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