How democracy can win
The experience of post-war Europe shows that if democracy is effective and responsive, there will be little constituency for explicit antidemocratic or radical appeals, and governments and other political actors… Read more »
Search Results for: Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
Why some succumb to authoritarian’s seductive lure
Weekend Read – “Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism” by @NEDemocracy Board Member @anneapplebaum and reviewed in the Washington Post by @JoDemocracy Board Member Sheri Berman here:… Read more »
Why democracies don’t face a ‘Weimar moment’
Given current illiberal threats to democracy “it is easy to conjecture a Weimar Republic landscape breeding national populist types. Perhaps too easy,” analysts Levy Yeyati and Andres Malamud recently wrote… Read more »
Democracy embattled: How bad is the crisis?
Around the world, democracies are getting weaker and elected politicians are becoming more unpopular. Are they serving the people—or themselves? The Economist asks (see below). The Crisis of Democracy and… Read more »
Capitalism vs democracy: Europe’s hard problem – or source of resilience?
Modern Europe’s political structure is based on the supposition that capitalism and democracy can be compatible – so the most urgent challenge of our times is reconciling the two, argues… Read more »
Democracy’s development, decay, or death knell?
Western populism is impossible to understand as a direct result of domestic problems. Rather, it is a reaction to the global redistribution of power that is still taking shape, argues… Read more »
Does democracy’s past reveal its future?
Faced with the dispiriting state of global democracy,* worried observers fret over three basic questions: Why is this democratic recession happening? How bad is it? And where is it heading?… Read more »
Main threat to liberal democracy ‘comes from within’?
Just as optimism over communism’s collapse and liberal democracy’s triumph masked underlying realities, so does Robert Kagan’s pessimism that strongmen are striking back warp understanding, argues Sheri Berman, a professor of political… Read more »
‘Nothing inevitable or inexorable’ about democracy’s advance – or decline
Some observers talk as though democracy is in irreversible decline, but the only way that freedom and democracy will fall is if we let them, USAID Administrator Mark Green told… Read more »
Can liberal democracy endure? Prospects for democratic renewal
Nativism and authoritarianism are gaining a foothold in countries around the globe. Populist movements are growing. Long established international alliances are fraying. Institutions that protect and promote our liberties are… Read more »