Category: Democratic Backsliding

Democracy’s surprising resilience belies ‘backsliding’?

     

The days when democracy was considered the only viable political regime are over, according to a leading analyst. “This process of a declining Liberal West, along with its increasing inability… Read more »

Why democracies are not ‘backsliding’

     

Terms like “democratic recession” and “backsliding” are misleading and breed fatalism, diverting attention from potential paths out of the new authoritarianism, says a leading analyst. Authoritarians have now shown that… Read more »

‘Technical coup’ means more trouble for Guatemala’s democracy

     

Guatemala’s highest court issued a temporary injunction Thursday blocking the controversial suspension of presidential runoff candidate Bernardo Arévalo’s progressive Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement), reports suggest. Late Wednesday, a judge had… Read more »

Democracy: Is the global tide turning?

     

“The world’s long freedom recession may be bottoming out,” according to the latest Freedom House report. The 2022 survey found that global improvements in freedom nearly equaled global declines, researchers… Read more »

Democracy and its opposites: Can we slow authoritarian backsliding?

     

Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 will pose a key question of our time: is it possible to slow authoritarian backsliding and renew democratic progress? notes Gönül Tol, the… Read more »

Will ‘possible turning point’ put democracy on the march again?

     

Is the world standing on the threshold of a democratic comeback? After years of relentless bad news, the latest annual global report on the health of democracy offers hope, according… Read more »