The Global Monitor of COVID-19´s Impact on Democracy and Human Rights is a one-stop platform that facilitates public access to knowledge, data, analysis, and policy guidance on the implications of… Read more »
The democracy assistance community is mourning the passing of Lorne W. Craner, the longest-serving president of the International Republican Institute (IRI). “Lorne embodied the vision of President Ronald Reagan,… Read more »
In Latin America, as in other parts of the world with weak institutions, the coronavirus is threatening democracy. The United States should stand up for the rule of law in… Read more »
The current U.S. protests against racial inequality would have come as no surprise to the celebrated political scientist Samuel P. Huntington. In his classic text, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony,… Read more »
Financing the Revival of Sudan’s Troubled Transition https://t.co/eMUTAwlXwG via @crisisgroup — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) June 23, 2020 Sudan’s transition could easily veer off course without a reinvigoration of the… Read more »
The Covid-19 pandemic has been talked of as a historical rupture, igniting system change. Yet, the nature of the new world being born is still far from certain, and this… Read more »
The governments of Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Israel, New Zealand & Norway register the highest scores in our new index: they have performed best in managing the #public… Read more »
Ukraine is a front-line state in the struggle between European rule-based order and Russian kleptocratic autocracy. Since the Euromaidan Revolution in 2013–14, Russia has deployed a range of measures –… Read more »
Authoritarian regimes are corrupt in a more fundamental way than liberal democracies because the access to power on every level of state bureaucracy in the former effectively signifies access to… Read more »
On Monday, a court in Manila convicted Filipino American journalist Maria Ressa of something called “cyber libel.” Her case will have severe ramifications for press freedom not only in South Asia… Read more »