The days when democracy was considered the only viable political regime are over, according to a leading analyst. “This process of a declining Liberal West, along with its increasing inability… Read more »
Terms like “democratic recession” and “backsliding” are misleading and breed fatalism, diverting attention from potential paths out of the new authoritarianism, says a leading analyst. Authoritarians have now shown that… Read more »
To support claims of “democratic backsliding” or “autocratisation”, analysts usually turn to annual quantitative scores of countries’ democratic vigor, The Economist observes. These widely cited indices, published by think-tanks like… Read more »
Guatemala’s highest court issued a temporary injunction Thursday blocking the controversial suspension of presidential runoff candidate Bernardo Arévalo’s progressive Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement), reports suggest. Late Wednesday, a judge had… Read more »
The Israeli opposition’s efforts to listen to its counterparts from illiberal Hungary and Poland, learn from their mistakes, and act strongly and swiftly, is a potential source of strength in… Read more »
“The world’s long freedom recession may be bottoming out,” according to the latest Freedom House report. The 2022 survey found that global improvements in freedom nearly equaled global declines, researchers… Read more »
Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 will pose a key question of our time: is it possible to slow authoritarian backsliding and renew democratic progress? notes Gönül Tol, the… Read more »
Is the world standing on the threshold of a democratic comeback? After years of relentless bad news, the latest annual global report on the health of democracy offers hope, according… Read more »
Last month, the Atlantic Council hosted its first Freedom and Prosperity Research Conference, gathering scholars from around the world to present their data-based research on the relationship between prosperity and economic,… Read more »
For the first time in two decades, there are more closed autocracies than liberal democracies in the world, but the future is not entirely bleak, says the latest report from… Read more »