Accounting for democratic resilience
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 »
Category: Authoritarianism
Moral and strategic case for defending open societies
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 »
Democracy in flux and under threat
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 »
Populism ‘on the defensive’
“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 »
‘High-Stakes Standoff’: U.S. faces hurdles in ‘nudging’ Belarus toward democracy
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 »
Calibration matters: An asymmetric approach to dealing with China
Washington’s best response to Xi Jinping’s increasingly nationalistic and authoritarian China is to adopt an asymmetric approach — revitalizing the relationships that have long anchored U.S. diplomacy while reaffirming… Read more »
Populism and elitism’s ‘corrosive effect on democratic life’
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 »
How to counter Chinese Communist Party’s coercive diplomacy
“The #CCP‘s coercive diplomacy” – essential reading from @ASPI_org‘s International Cyber Policy Centre https://t.co/LzjmQWNwXV — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 1, 2020 Coercive diplomacy is an important tool of Chinese… Read more »
Pekingology: social stability and political trust in China
What are the evolving attitudes of Chinese citizens towards inequality and what impact does this have on social stability and political trust? Listen and subscribe here: https://t.co/8Lo3zzWdzv pic.twitter.com/bjDvtMhJaa —… Read more »
Walesa warns Poles over populism as Solidarity turns 40
Belarus: Lessons from Polish Solidarity https://t.co/colC8cgOHW — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 31, 2020 Lech Walesa on Monday warned against populism as his deeply divided country marked 40 years since a… Read more »