Can democracy survive backsliding?
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried. The maxim, made famous by Winston Churchill, was actually expressed six months earlier by… Read more »
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Backsliding democracies can ‘revitalize’ amid authoritarian resurgence, says report
The number of countries moving in the direction of authoritarianism is three times the number moving toward democracy, according to a new analysis. launched today (above). Authoritarianism is resurgent as autocratic… Read more »
Global democratic backsliding driven by …. democracies?
The United States and its allies accounted for a significantly outsize share of global democratic backsliding in the last decade, according to a ‘new’ analysis by The New York Times…. Read more »
The anatomy of backsliding – explaining democratic regress
The European Union’s executive said on Tuesday that Turkey’s bid to join the bloc had “come to a standstill” amid serious democratic shortfalls, in its most critical annual report since… Read more »
Countering Central America’s polarization and democratic backsliding
The European Union (EU) will probably refuse to acknowledge the result of the Nicaraguan elections on November 7, according to a source. “We have a clear idea of what is… Read more »
Guinea’s wannabe ‘Mandela’ – agent & victim of democratic backsliding
Less than a year into his controversial third term in office, Guinea’s president, Alpha Condé, was ousted last week in a military coup, note analysts Carolyn Logan, Aliou Barry and Josephine… Read more »
Balkans balk at EU backsliding
The Balkans Don’t Believe the EU Anymore, Atlantic Council analysts Benjamin Haddad and Damir Marusic argue in Foreign Policy. The fact that EU members such as Hungary and Poland are backsliding… Read more »
Do arrests show Tanzania backsliding on reform commitments?
On Wednesday morning, police in Mwanza, in northern Tanzania, surrounded the hotel occupied by members of the country’s main opposition party, Chadema, and arrested 11 party members, including the party chairman, Freeman Mbowe, analyst… Read more »
Democratic breakthrough & backsliding: Lessons of history
Authoritarian regimes supplant democratic governments in various ways, according to this year’s Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Human Rights Memorial Lecture at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. “Of course,… Read more »
Backsliding puts democracy in peril?
Democracies are backsliding amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent reports. The idea of democratic backsliding illuminates a process that’s at work in democracies today: the erosion of formal institutions,… Read more »