Democracy: ‘The Signs of Deconsolidation’
The Journal of Democracy is providing access to anew essay by scholars Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk on the troubling decline of belief in democracy among citizens of advanced democracies…. Read more »
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Democratic Disconnect: The Danger of Deconsolidation
Are citizens in the world’s advanced democracies still committed to democratic government? In the latest issue of The Journal of Democracy, Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk consider whether there are… Read more »
China offers ideological alternative to liberal-democratic order?
Ten years of China’s Belt and Road: what has $1tn achieved? https://t.co/p6cdPxq8Ws via @ft — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) October 23, 2023 China offers a coherent ideological alternative to the liberal-democratic… Read more »
Poland: Back to the ABC of democracy?
Poland’s ruling authoritarians have fundamentally subverted democracy, including the electoral process. For the democratic opposition to win, it will almost take a miracle, argues Wojciech Sadurski, a Professor at the… Read more »
Rethinking corruption
Political corruption poses a serious threat to democracy and its consolidation, according to analyst Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. Many anticorruption initiatives fail because they are nonpolitical in nature, while most of the… Read more »
Beyond the Oligarchs? Kleptocratic capture in fledgling democracies
Bold investigative reporting, energetic civil society campaigns, and ambitious law enforcement actions have blown open the secretive world of global kleptocracy. Thanks to groups such as the International Consortium of… Read more »
Russia’s political trajectory – ‘disintegrating’ towards failed state or did Prigozhin’s putsch prop up Putin?
As the war in Ukraine unfolded last year, Russia’s best digital spies turned to new tools to fight an enemy on another front: those inside its own borders who opposed the… Read more »
Egypt’s lessons for the next Arab Spring
Democratization in the Arab world has long been hobbled by an “Islamist dilemma,” notes Brookings analyst Shadi Hamid. U.S. officials who might otherwise believe in democracy have found it more… 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 »
‘Tunisian Frankenstein’ takes revenge: Explaining a broken democracy
President Kais Saied bears the primary responsibility for breaking Tunisia’s young democracy, says Daniel Brumberg, Director of Democracy and Governance Studies at Georgetown University. But a postmortem of the factors… Read more »