Property rights, free markets, and the rule of law supported by democratic institutions are the reason poverty has declined as much as it has, says Atlas Network’s Matt Warner, a former… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party rejects universalism as a Western concept but is substituting its own counter-universal values based on empire and party that Westerners have trouble understanding, argues analyst Didi Kirsten… Read more »
The National Resilience Index 2020 measures how capable each of the D-10 club of democracies is in facing crises like pandemics or terrorist attacks. Our findings – made using a… Read more »
The Belarusian Kids Are Alright by Sławomir Sierakowski @ProSyn https://t.co/xpM9fdGVXU — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 4, 2020 Europe must send a clear signal to the Kremlin that interference in… Read more »
The Global Disinformation Index estimates that 25 million USD will unwittingly go to funding all kinds of COVID-19 conspiracies and disinformation disseminating outlets in 2020 alone, GLOBSEC reports (above). The… Read more »
Populist leaders often use moments of crisis to advance authoritarian agendas, according to Arminio Fraga and Guillermo Ortiz, respectively former president of Brazil’s central bank and former governor of Mexico’s central… Read more »
There are five main challenges for democracies after coronavirus, analysts Célia Belin and Giovanna De Maio write in a new Brookings analysis: protecting the safety and integrity of elections, finding the right… Read more »
The Tunisian Crisis and Migrations: Myths and Reality https://t.co/MVy9tgKx8X — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 13, 2020 A Tunisian populist politician who aligns herself with an ousted dictator has been… Read more »
As the coronavirus has spread, many political observers have warned that it is bolstering authoritarianism,* suggesting that a devastating biological virus has translated into a damaging political virus that has markedly… Read more »
Voters in Belarus are heading to the polls to elect their president in an unusually dramatic and hotly-contested vote. What was widely anticipated to be a smooth re-election ride for… Read more »