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The process of democratic backsliding, including the erosion of democratic institutions and the consolidation of power by authoritarian leaders.
A definitive shift to authoritarianism would be visible not in rhetoric alone but in concrete, institutional transformations: sustained subordination of the judiciary and electoral machinery to the ex...
No: by widely used academic definitions — organized armed conflict between a state and an internal opposition causing roughly 1,000 battlefield deaths — is not currently in a , though a dangerous mix ...
The claim that liberal democracy’s commitment to tolerate even vicious, propagandistic criticism will inevitably “” is neither self-evident nor uniformly true; political theory and comparative researc...
Democracy can prevail under a president whose actions stress democratic norms, but doing so will require coordinated defense of elections, the rule of law, and institutional independence combined with...