A number of other authors have made similar arguments based on singular cases or a broader sweep of decisions.
Huq argues that the Supreme Court can be a vector of democratic backsliding by enabling these trends to connect and helping entrench political power in a permanent minority insulated from democratic competition. Huq says the primary causes of democratic backsliding are: "(1) the incomplete democratization of national institutions created in 1787 (2) a half century of rising inequalities in wealth, market power, and political influence and (3) a resurgence of intolerant, authoritarian, white-ethnic identity politics associated with the Republican Party". Greenberg argued that policies adopted during the war on terror enabled later democratic backsliding under the Trump administration. In 2017, Iranian–German sociologist Behrouz Alikhani cited the government following the interests of global corporations rather than citizens and loosening of campaign finance laws, especially the Citizens United decision, to enable the wealthy greater influence in politics. After they returned to France in February 1832, Tocqueville and Beaumont submitted their report, Du syst.In 2006, political scientist Wendy Brown argued that the United States was de-democratizing because of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. The two also briefly visited Canada, spending a few days in the summer of 1831 in what was then Lower Canada (modern-day Quebec) and Upper Canada (modern-day Ontario).
They arrived in New York City in May of that year and spent nine months traveling the United States, studying the prisons, and collecting information on American society, including its religious, political, and economic character. In his later letters Tocqueville indicates that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous seven hundred years. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually simply entitled Democracy in America. Democracy in America - De La Democratie en Amerique published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville.
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