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

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 ...

In total, 45 countries were “autocratizing” last year – an increase from 42 that were moving away from more democracy in 2023 ... to constrain the use of executive power, especially ...

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 ...

R. Bruce Anderson writes that a large proportion of European nations came to democratic “norms” while he was alive. What are ...

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 ...

The Stockholm-based organization said its Global Report on the State of the Democracy, which measures democratic performance in 158 countries from ... and the use of artificial intelligence ...