Prominent American political scientist Larry Bartels insists that democracy withers from above, says analyst Ivan Krastev; unfortunate coalition policies or institutional changes are really why the far right comes to… Read more »
Explanations linking Russia’s behavior to traditional geopolitics or fears of democratization fall flat as accounts of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, says a leading analyst. The war in Ukraine is… Read more »
Putin’s ill-fated war in Ukraine risks the complete annihilation of the myth of autocratic competence, notes Kathryn Stoner, the Mosbacher Director of Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the… Read more »
A study commissioned by USAID found that every $10 million of democracy assistance provided between 1992-2000 contributed to a 7-point jump on the Varieties of Democracy 100-point global electoral democracy… Read more »
At the moment democracies look like they are winning the struggle with authoritarianism. Both autocrats and demagogues have had a bad year. Only last week Peru’s president was arrested after trying… Read more »
While Russian President Vladimir Putin brazenly violates international law on the Ukrainian front, his lobbyists in Western capitals operate in covert ways that allow for plausible deniability, notes Sergei Guriev,… Read more »
Group of Seven foreign ministers gathered on Thursday to weigh how to support Ukraine through the winter in the face of Russian attacks on its power grid as well as… Read more »
Autocratic regimes like China and Russia exhibit weaknesses of two sorts, says Stanford’s Francis Fukuyama: First, the concentration of power in the hands of a single leader at the top… Read more »
Poland’s illiberal government may be forced by events, including those unleashed by Russia’s war, to inch closer to the European democratic mainstream, according to Kultura Liberalna’s Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina… Read more »
Are elements of global public opinion accepting or even supportive of the current authoritarian resurgence? A new academic study finds that while democracy is widely preferred as a system of… Read more »