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 ...

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 ...

STOCKHOLM, April 11 (Reuters) - Voters in many countries are suffering a crisis ... what it called Russian attempts to undermine European democracy. The survey, conducted between July 2023 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

These are among the reasons analysts cite for the democratic crisis in these countries. While a majority of Africans polled still say they prefer democracy to other forms of government ...

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 ...