Our empirical evidence shows that in the past 10 y, the advancement of AI/ICT has hindered the development of democracy in many countries around the world. Given that both the state rulers and civil ...

The Democracy Index, a yearly report issued by Economist Intelligence, notes that the rise of populist movements is actually demoralizing the institutions and legal processes that are key markers of ...

Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country since 2021, scoring just 0.25 points. The biggest change came from Bangladesh, which dropped 25 places. Rebuilding democracy there will be an ...

After an election marked by harsh and extreme rhetoric, whatever the outcome, half the country would dwell in grief, convinced that the world’s oldest democracy was finished. Why? This moment ...

Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish political thinker and the author of several books, including How to Lose a Country: The Seven Steps from Democracy ... Over the past decade, using the word “fascism ...

using examples of hypothetical countries. The paper "People consistently view elections and civil liberties as key components of democracy" was published in Science on 17 October 2024 ...

This year, Greece, the cradle of democracy, returned to the category of “full democracies” for the first time since 2010, yet remains the European Union’s lowest-ranked country in the Press Freedom ...

Pew Research Center conducted a survey and did over 900 interviews in each country to find out how satisfied and dissatisfied citizens are with the democracy of their countries. Many of the executive ...