Nicaragua’s opposition National Coalition has announced that it will boycott the November 7 election. The issue of whether to boycott or participate in authoritarian elections presents democratic actors with… Read more »
President Joe Biden and his advisors should build a framework of incentives designed to nudge a political transition in Venezuela, argues Jorge Jraissati, the president of the Venezuelan Alliance…. Read more »
Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgling but backsliding democracy they helped install just five years ago. There are about 37 million registered… Read more »
New technologies have made Russia’s information efforts easier to implement than the propaganda campaigns – aka active measures – that the Soviets conducted during the Cold War, according to a… Read more »
Voters in Belarus are heading to the polls to elect their president in an unusually dramatic and hotly-contested vote. What was widely anticipated to be a smooth re-election ride for… Read more »
Some 60,000 people joined an opposition rally in Belarus, where presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya said she was “tired of being afraid” and wanted to bring about peaceful change in the… Read more »
Police in Belarus have arbitrarily arrested journalists, bloggers, and political activists ahead of the August 9, 2020 presidential election and pressed charges against two potential candidates, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
Lessons from the Polish Opposition by Jacek Rostowski @ProSyn https://t.co/gqWHgarDUK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 13, 2020 Although Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski did not come out on top… Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the very weaknesses that have marked the democratic erosion of the last decade in most of the 137 developing and transformation countries examined in the… Read more »
The embeddedness of liberal democracies in an interdependent world characterized by relatively free cross-border flows of goods, services, assets and people has amplified the virulent effects of highly contagious deadly… Read more »