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

Instead of reflecting on those problems facing its own democracy, the United States continues to export American democratic values to other countries, and use democracy as a tool to serve its own ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In fact, in countries where democracy still struggles to take root, power holders can use upper houses to gain greater control of the legislative branch. When designing and promoting institutional ...

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 ...