Britain’s domestic security agency, MI5, sent an unusual alert on Thursday to lawmakers warning that an agent of the Chinese government was actively working to subvert the political processes of… Read more »
The democratic recession was “hotly contested” in a striking surge of protests across the world in 2021, new research suggests. Whereas 2020 demonstrated the resilience of protests amid the coronavirus pandemic,… Read more »
Despite challenges that intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, human rights defenders, civil society, independent media and other democratic forces have proven resilient, writes Ryan Arick, an assistant program officer at… Read more »
It’s one of the few political problems that unites people across the political spectrum and across the globe, notes Ryan Heath of POLITICO’s Global Translations. But how can we actually… Read more »
Latin American democracy is more resilient than appearances may suggest, according to a new report. Opinion polls show that only around a fifth to a quarter of Latin Americans might… Read more »
These are frightening times for Chinese civil-society activists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private businesses that see their role as building bridges between China and other countries. Nationalist bloggers, supported at… Read more »
If #Ukraine were to become a thriving #democracy, it would stand as a rebuke to Putin’s claim that Western values are unworkable in Orthodox, Slavic Russia. https://t.co/2LlqadEYdm — Democracy Digest… Read more »
Are elements of global public opinion accepting or even supportive of the current authoritarian resurgence? A new academic study finds that while democracy is widely preferred as a system of… Read more »
Internet Freedom: The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announced a Request for Statements of Interest (RSOI) from organizations interested in programs that support Internet Freedom. In support of… Read more »
After 18 months of Covid-19, incoherent, slow-moving responses to high mortality rates have called into question the legitimacy of governing institutions in many countries, notably but not solely democracies, according… Read more »