As democracy’s global tailwinds shift to headwinds, there is opportunity to better understand how experience with even superficial forms of democratic institutions influences citizen behavior when formal democratic institutions erode… Read more »
The covid-19 pandemic “is a wake-up call…not just as a public-health disaster, but a stress test of Western government,” John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge contend in The Wake-Up Call:… Read more »
“The #CCP‘s coercive diplomacy” – essential reading from @ASPI_org‘s International Cyber Policy Centre https://t.co/LzjmQWNwXV — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 1, 2020 Coercive diplomacy is an important tool of Chinese… Read more »
The United States should be wary of waging a long-term ideological competition that pits democracy against authoritarianism, argue Elbridge Colby and Wess Mitchell, founders of the Marathon Initiative, a new… Read more »
The Chinese Communist Party has pinned its legitimacy, and hence its survival, on economic performance and making China strong internationally @WarOnTheRocks https://t.co/uJUko52nYc — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 27, 2020 The… Read more »
NEW: @IRIglobal, @Graphika_NYC & @iftf report uncovers a series of online campaigns by #CCP-linked actors targeting #Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election and its response to #COVID19 with narratives crafted to advance… Read more »
Authoritarian regimes exploit 7 legal loopholes to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into U.S. and European elections. In a new report, @JoshRudes and Thomas Morley explain what democracies… Read more »
Democracies have long claimed to have several advantages over authoritarian regimes – such as sound governance and effectiveness in wartime – based on the open marketplace of ideas and freedom… Read more »
The dictator’s two dilemmas, detailed by former @NEDemocracy board member @Columbia‘s Andrew J. Nathan | https://t.co/S5tStoMLhX via @aspi_org — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 19, 2020 Authoritarian regimes suffer from… Read more »
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the attrition of individual liberties, as pro-democracy groups recently warned in a Call to Defend Democracy. Data collected by Samuel Woodhams of Top10VPN, a digital… Read more »