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Efforts by elected leaders to expand unilateral control and undermine independent agencies and checks and balances.
The question is not hypothetical: reporting documents an explicit and concrete steps taken by to consolidate power . At the same time, a complex set of institutional constraints—courts, divided federa...
Yes: by widely used comparative measures and by the assessments of many scholars and advocacy groups, fits the definition of a "" today, and a number of expert reports warn it is sliding further towar...
institutions have responded unevenly to under : courts have often acted as legal bulwarks against executive overreach, the press has amplified warnings and exposed actions while facing delegitimizatio...