A study by @NEDemocracy partner @PoliticalCap @peterkreko shows how authoritarian regimes gain EU leverage @eszterz đź‡đź‡ş journalist reports for @euobs https://t.co/PeIPWWF7wH — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 4, 2020
Since the early 2000s, democracy has deteriorated across most of Southeast Asia, says Council on Foreign Relations analyst Joshua Kurlantzick. Perhaps most dramatically, Myanmar has slid backward after a burst… Read more »
The National Resilience Index 2020 measures how capable each of the D-10 club of democracies is in facing crises like pandemics or terrorist attacks. Our findings – made using a… Read more »
Authoritarian nation-states are using elements of their intelligence and military establishments, via cyber and disinformation operations, to interfere in democracies’ elections, notes Scott Bates, a former Senior Policy Advisor for… Read more »
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 »
Belarus’ Fight for a Democratic Future – Center for American Progress https://t.co/ZyTGA9mozB — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020 The gravity of the situation in Belarus has led many… Read more »
“Liberal democracy has responded to the populist mobilization with a democratic counter-mobilization – also and especially in the political center,” says @BertelsmannSt https://t.co/AwjM9BJ91r — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020… Read more »
A High-Stakes Standoff in Belarus https://t.co/MJZpJ8bbQg — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 2, 2020 A senior U.S. official said the United States and European Union were closely coordinating to find… Read more »
In 1911, Robert Michels (1876-1936), an Italian political sociologist, published “Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy,” postulating the “iron law of oligarchy.” Michels, who… Read more »
From Norway to North Korea, governing systems differ around the world. But has the world become more or less free in the past decade? Â Iman Ghosh writes for Visual… Read more »