Senior Program Officer, Mandela Washington Fellowship, Leadership Practice, IREX, Washington, D.C. International Advocacy Officer, Human Rights House Foundation, Brussels, Belgium. Development and Funding Officer, Democratic Progress Institute, London, United Kingdom. The U.S…. Read more »
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think-tank, is warning that ‘disinformation is becoming normalized‘ in elections, adding that it was ‘taken aback’ by the level of deceit in the… Read more »
Georgia’s status as a post-Soviet democratic leader is under challenge, according to analysts Denis Corboy, William Courtney, Kenneth Yalowitz. A flawed presidential election, use of force against protesters, and political manipulations… Read more »
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has purchased the domain name Democracy.com “so it wouldn’t be used by someone with a political agenda,” he tells Yahoo Finance. Cuban said he acquired the domain… Read more »
The U.S.-led liberal order, built by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his successors, is being dismantled, according to a leading strategist. The U.S. emerged from the horror of the 1940s as… Read more »
Tunisia’s second presidential elections since the Arab Spring symbolize another step in the country’s promising democratic transition, The New Arab reports. The first round took place on September 15, and… Read more »
Dozens of demonstrators were killed across Iraq on Thursday and Friday as violent protests against government corruption swelled into a mass spontaneous uprising sweeping much of the country, the worst… Read more »
The rise of political impersonation threatens a core aspect of democracy: the process by which federal agencies canvass public opinion before enacting new regulations, BuzzFeed’s Jeremy Singer-Vine and Kevin Collier report:… Read more »
Tunisia’s moderate Islamist Ennahda party will seek to govern alone or in partnership with “the forces of the revolution”, its leader said on Friday, hinting at an end to five… Read more »
Revitalizing political parties would serve to both improve democratic accountability and democratic resilience, argues Wilson Center scholar Patrick Liddiard. Parties themselves have the biggest opportunity to halt their own decline… Read more »