In the wake of Beijing’s (supposedly) superior coronavirus-busting effort, Chinese officials and state media outlets have been relentlessly marketing their (authoritarian) governance system as superior, while denigrating the (democratic) U.S…. Read more »
Imagine you live in a freewheeling city like New York or London—one of the world’s leading financial, educational, and cultural centers. Then imagine that one of the most infamous… Read more »
How can the West combat disinformation without curbing its own free speech? This was one of the questions raised in this week’s CEPA forum on Resilience in the Face of Authoritarianism…. Read more »
Why Hungary’s Democratic Backsliding Should Prompt NATO To Act – Center for American Progress https://t.co/9ywQAEwYWC — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 10, 2020 Core to NATO’s future is its standing… Read more »
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 »
Tom Burgis’s new book, “Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World,” provides a magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships, says Jennifer Taub, a… 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 »
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 »
For 26 years, President Aleksandr Lukashenko has built a regime in his own eccentric, authoritarian image. Now he faces the greatest challenge yet to his hold on power in Belarus,… 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 »