Democracy and social welfare have long been seen as mutually reinforcing, but the connection is anything but universal or automatic. With illiberal and autocratic leaders around the world offering more generous welfare policies to consolidate their power, do we need to rethink the relationships between democracy, authoritarianism, and welfare? Experts on Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and Asia tackle this topic from different world-regions and multiple analytical perspectives.

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