Democracy: ‘The Signs of Deconsolidation’
The Journal of Democracy is providing access to anew essay by scholars Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk on the troubling decline of belief in democracy among citizens of advanced democracies…. Read more »
Category: Journal of Democracy
Don’t overstate turn from democracy
People in Europe and the United States have soured on the idea of democracy and have become open to nondemocratic ways to run their countries, according to Roberto Stefan Foa… Read more »
Russia’s threat to liberal democracy: Putin making world safe for autocracy
With the end of the Cold War and the expansion of NATO and the EU to virtually all of Central and Eastern Europe, liberal democracy seemed ascendant and secure as… Read more »
How Morocco’s ‘democratic experiment’ went wrong
Morocco, held up as a model for reform in the wake of the Arab Spring, is slipping back into autocracy, according to the Christian Science Monitor: Though a new constitution… Read more »
Millennials not skeptics of democracy
Citizens of established democracies are becoming skeptical of democracy’s worth, according to a recent Journal of Democracy article by political scientists Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk. But analyst Jeff… Read more »
Are democracies stable ? ‘Warning signs are flashing red’
Is the populist backlash just a new kind of politics, or a symptom of something deeper? To answer that question, Harvard’s Yascha Mounk and the University of Melbourne’s Roberto Stefan… Read more »
How to stop corruption, curb kleptocracy
This week’s protests in Malaysia have again highlighted the political pathologies associated with rampant corruption and kleptocracy. Even in advanced liberal democracies like the UK, kleptocrats are using London’s property… Read more »
The leading stalwart against authoritarian populism is….
Around the world, many experts see a global swing toward authoritarian populism — a loosely defined political ideology often centered around anti-establishment grievances and aggressive foreign policy positions. However, a… Read more »
Europe’s populist threat: reframing the debate
‘Populism’ is often used in such a broad, catch-all fashion that it makes for extremely imprecise analysis and policy prescription, according to Richard Youngs, a Senior Associate with the Carnegie… Read more »
Democracy ‘still the most effective form of government ever devised’
U.S. President Barack Obama warned today against a rise in nationalism and populism – from both Left and Right – noting that a backlash against globalization had stoked illiberal movements…. Read more »