Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Democratic backsliding
I revisited, making time to read more of the books and journal articles.  Most of the hits on this term fail to support notability or meet  because they merely use two common, English words in their commonly understood sense in the course of discussion the failure or perceived threat of failure of specific democratic institutions due to a variety of proposed causes.  Also, the article in ''Democracy Digest'' is a mere report of the Huq & Gisburg article in Vox; even though it is used as though it was a 2nd, independent source to support the POV of this phenomenon taken by this brief page.   The only  2 sources we have offering  of this term as a term are Bormeo and Huq & Gisburg. (ping me if you find more)  That's not a lot on which to base a  article.   So here is Bormeo (2016) on the history and definition of this term: ''"The term democratic backsliding is frequently used but rarely analyzed. This explains why a careful recent survey concluded “we know very little” about it.  Part of the problem is the term’s extraordinary breadth. At its most basic, it denotes the state-led debilitation or elimination of any of the political institutions that sustain an existing democracy. Since the political institutions that sustain democracy are myriad (including all the institutions that enable people to formulate and signify preferences and then have  them  weighed  by  their  elected representatives),  the  term  embraces  multiple processes. Since the state actors who might initiate backsliding are themselves diverse (ranging from monarchs to presidents to military men), the term embraces multiple agents. Insum, the concept has so many referents that it needs immediate specification to have practical meaning. Like an old steamer trunk, it is opaque and unwieldy but yields much that proves useful when it is unpacked."''   Boromeo then goes on to list 6 types of democratic backsliding: classic coups d’état; executive coups; election day vote fraud; promissory coups (essentially, running on a restore-democracy platform;) Executive aggrandizement; and Manipulating elections strategically.   This page, unfortunately,  is written as though  Huq & Gisburg definiton was a consensus view of this topic, when, in fact, it presents a particular concept quite different form that presented by Bormeo.    This is problematic, but it could be improved by editing.  However,  the reason I am arguing for deletion is that there is too little serious analysis of this two-word-phrase as a term of art to pass .  ''Democratic backsliding'' is, at present, a simple juxtaposition of common English words used ot describe a range of phenomena.  Like  republican virtue, or a good mother it fails because  and sources do not support the proposition that "democratic backsliding' is a term of art with a specific meaning or set of meanings like deliberative democracy or democratic socialism
— User:E, 17:05, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NEO||WP:SIGCOV||WP:NEO||WP:NEO||WP:NOTDICTIONARY (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)