The decline of civil liberties in Western democratic systems: a study of determinants and theoretical approaches

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Department of Political Science, Faculty of Commerce, Damanhour University, Egypt

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      This study seeks to present a comprehensive theoretical vision that may contribute to explaining the change in the quality of liberal democracy after the rise of new variables that affected the Western liberal model. There are well-established democracies such as the United States of America, France, and other European countries that have gradually begun to abandon respect for civil liberties to varying degrees and towards the application of procedures recognized by hybrid-democratic regimes such as restricting press freedom, escalating inspection procedures, and expanding surveillance and wiretapping procedures. and accordingly; The study focused on presenting the most important theoretical approaches that opened the discussion about the possibility of restricting civil liberties in order to raise other social issues such as national security or equality, in addition to monitoring the most important factors that led to this decline, which was monitored by international indicators with a lack of Arabic studies that dealt with this subject.

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