A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

“But for me, the bigger question is, can they use this opportunity to galvanize ... and some dispute — in what countries constitute a democracy. While democracy has declined globally for ...

This year’s democracy index published by EIU, our sister company, shows that only 43 of the more than 70 elections are expected to be fully free and fair. Each year EIU grades 167 countries and ...

As social media use becomes more widespread globally, people in 27 countries surveyed by Pew Research Center between 2022 and 2023 generally see it as more of a good thing than a bad thing for ...

An expert helps explain why people don’t always immediately push back when politicians attack their democracies.

Some Western countries have been ignoring the progress China has made in developing democracy. Due to their ideological prejudice and Cold War mentality, they see China as an autocracy ...

After invading Ukraine in February of last year, Russia was one of the countries studied that experienced the steepest of democracy score declines. “We saw a lot of optimistic analysis that ...

Freedom House rates each country and its level of democracy on a scale from 2 to 14, from “mostly free” to “least free.” One way to think about the level of democracy in the region is to ...