LAURA GAMBOA is Assistant Professor of Democracy and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of ...

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The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this ...

What about Uruguay’s structure has led to success in maintaining democracy? What lessons can the country offer to the region ...

In total, 45 countries were “autocratizing” last year – an increase from 42 that were moving away from more democracy in 2023. That amounts to more than 3 billion people, or 40% of the world ...

Trump’s order to cut funding to Voice of America and several other pro-democracy media outlets has drawn widespread criticism ...

Zambia and Tanzania that far-sighted nationalist elite formations have been able to buck the trend by continuous practice of the habits and rituals of democracy. In almost all these countries, one ...

Guinea’s military junta has set Sept. 21 as the date for a long-promised referendum on the adoption of a new constitution.

And indeed when Mr Trump was in the White House before, the modal voter became a bit more Democratic. Then when Joe Biden was ...

Some have thought Mr Erdogan an aspiring dictator ever since the 1990s, when as an Islamist he campaigned against Turkey’s ...