• In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. (greenlightbookstore.com)
  • In Twilight of Democracy, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum offers an unexpected explanation: that there is a deep and inherent appeal to authoritarianism, strongmen, and, especially, one-party rule--that is, to political systems that benefit true believers, or loyal soldiers, or simply the friends and distant cousins of the leader, to the exclusion of everyone else. (kevinkoperski.com)
  • To address the question of why digital authoritarianism continues to rise despite ongoing counterefforts and a shared, bipartisan, allied, and multilateral understanding of the problem, CSIS twice convened a bipartisan group of experts and leading voices from the public and private sectors in late spring and early summer 2020. (csis.org)
  • The literature on it (Levitsky and Way 2002, 2010, 2020) analyses systems in which power holders do not abolish all formal democratic procedures, but "employ informal mechanisms of coercion and control, while maintaining the formal architecture of democracy" (Levitsky and Way 2010: 27). (epw.in)
  • It is a common phenomenon that during economic crises authoritarianism - even fascism - makes headway on the governmental level. (tammilehto.info)
  • In theory, democracy should provide advantages in dealing with crises. (ips-journal.eu)
  • In theory, inherent features of democracy - a free press and information flows, politicians, parties and governments responsive to citizens and trusted by them, officials and bureaucrats appointed on the basis of merit rather than connections - should provide advantages in dealing with crises. (ips-journal.eu)
  • S1E5: 'Soft Authoritarianism', a New Face of Electoral Democracy? (uni-bremen.de)
  • Panelists will examine transnational ties between the Middle East, East Africa, Europe and the U.K. We also interrogate the role of faith-based Shi'i non-state providers (NSPs) and sub- and supranational aid-economy actors in the context of postwar reconstruction and urban revitalization, and examine hybrid regimes of rule in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where authoritarianism and electoral democracy are mutually reinforcing. (lu.se)
  • Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God (2019) . (journalofdemocracy.com)
  • Until the May 2019 election, it was possible to see the emerging system as an illiberal democracy-a term that implies a change in degree but not in kind. (epw.in)
  • In recent years, the latter has been eroded by the faltering economic performance of democracies and the comparative resurgence of authoritarian regimes. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Secondly, the global report cautions that in some countries their regimes are taking steps to withdraw from liberal practices and norms of democracy such as civil liberties. (idea.int)
  • The process tracing is combined with political analysis of historical developments in the postcommunist Eastern Europe drawn primarily on the theories of hybrid regimes, illiberal democracies, path-dependence and revolutionary breakthroughs. (ipiend.gov.ua)
  • A comparison of Bolivia to Brazil and Venezuela illuminates the challenges of both eroding democracy and institutionalizing new competitive authoritarian regimes. (journalofdemocracy.com)
  • Digital authoritarianism presents overlapping and expanding challenges (1) within autocracies, (2) as tools to undermine adversaries, (3) via export to like-minded regimes, and (4) within and by democracies themselves. (csis.org)
  • If the Bush administration is truly concerned about the health of democracy in Latin America, Rumsfeld, while visiting Peru yesterday, should have focused his and the U.S.' attention on the country's failing democracy, instead of Chávez's exploits and the recent political turmoil in Bolivia. (coha.org)
  • However, there is one difference: while the democratic backsliding and other related woes seen in EU countries occur in the context of consolidated democracies, the challenges experienced in the Western Balkan countries are brewing in conditions of much weaker and more fragile democracies. (idea.int)
  • But perhaps the most important is how fragile democracy is: Its survival depends on choices made every day by elites and ordinary people. (greenlightbookstore.com)
  • Exploitation of digital tools by leaders with authoritarian tendencies threatens to take humanity backward, potentially undoing decades of post-World War II political and multilateral progress in every country from the world's most important democracies to its most fragile. (csis.org)
  • The SNSF's grant will fund Ricardo Pagliuso Ragatieri's research visit at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy from August 2021 to end of January 2022. (graduateinstitute.ch)
  • Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • For representing a peaceful alternative to achieve democracy and for their courage and steadfastness in the cause of democracy, the National Endowment for Democracy is proud to present its Democracy Award to Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan. (ned.org)
  • It argues that the erosion of Philippine democracy co-existed with the disempowerment of civil society due to direct assaults of the Duterte administration, massive disinformation campaigns, and the rise of authoritarian nostalgia and illiberal political actors. (uni-hamburg.de)
  • At the same time, they are also at the root of a set of democratic dilemmas that subnational opposition politics face under conditions of authoritarianism, and which may force opposition politicians to compromise on core values such as transparency and accountability, and lead them prematurely to a jump into national politics. (unive.it)
  • The opposition Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism-Tarayya and its allies received 25 seats, and the Democratic and Social Convention-Rahama received 22 seats. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Her research spans the fields of comparative authoritarianism, democratization, opposition movements and political parties. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • She is the author of the monograph Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Cornell SEAP, 2016). (lu.se)
  • The book was shortlisted for EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2017, with the motivation "Astrid Noren-Nilsson's Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program 2016) is a thought-provoking book about Cambodia's politics that is highly original in its approach, and grounded in some remarkable research, including numerous interviews with prominent figures. (lu.se)
  • Anwar has long been an advocate for Islamic democracy and for reforms to Malaysia's political system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy traces within our expansive world's past and present the cyclical tendency of leadership to toss away morality and common sense, by embracing a base ignorance to consolidate power for perceived loyalty to their nationalistic ideals. (greenlightbookstore.com)
  • Reflecting this, most of the world's big growth successes have been autocracies, but also most of its big growth failures (though this may be partly due to the fact that poorly performing democracies tend, before long, to get overthrown by autocrats). (oxfam.org.uk)
  • Bridging literary, historical, economic and technological perspectives, this two-day conference examines the successes, and failures, of democracies, and analyzes a possible return of anti-democratic trends, both in present-day Europe and internationally. (berkeley.edu)
  • Yet irrespective of Saied's own ambitions, and the fact his "New Foundation" may manifest more along the lines of Gaddafi's people's committees in Libya - a masquerade of democracy hiding a brutal authoritarian regime - it is important to note Tunisia's own recent history of democratic experimentation (some say expedience) in the CPRs. (wagingnonviolence.org)
  • Democracy Digest is an indispensable resource, providing valuable news and analysis on the challenges facing democrats and civil society, from authoritarian disinformation and kleptocracy to strategies for democratic renewal. (demdigest.org)
  • Democracy Digest is the single best source of news and analysis on the evolving challenges to democratic governance and ideas for democratic renewal. (demdigest.org)
  • In this paper, I examine the case of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the attempt to create a democratic polity under the conditions of authoritarianism. (unive.it)
  • In particular, the modern authoritarian parties that have arisen within democracies today offer the possibility of success to people who do not thrive in the meritocratic, democratic, or free-market competition that determines access to wealth and power. (kevinkoperski.com)
  • The second president also came to power through a coup, and this period of Brazilian democracy was dubbed the "Republic of Swords" due to its military, authoritarian, and anti-democratic nature. (peacemagazine.org)
  • If, however, a minimalist democracy can be consolidated, the chances are that it will do better, developmentally, the more democratic it becomes. (oxfam.org.uk)
  • Is this a country in which all or almost all powerful elite groups have a commitment to democracy, either because they have been through a long period of democratic tutelage, or because they see democracy as the best means of resolving conflicts and maintaining at least some of their privileges? (oxfam.org.uk)
  • And are the popular forces in favour of democracy sufficiently strong and well-organised to ensure that democratic concessions are not merely cosmetic? (oxfam.org.uk)
  • The ever evolving tools and techniques of digital authoritarianism transcend boundaries and have over the past decade advanced the interests of authoritarian states while subverting human rights, democratic principles, and more. (csis.org)
  • Putting forth a framework for micro-level assessment of the cognitive and interpretive dynamics generating loss of popular support to democratic transition, the research problematizes the relationship between political socialization, the conceptualization of democracy, and the formation of political grievances. (lu.se)
  • Democracy Digest is an essential source for analysis of modern dictatorship, identifying democracy's adversaries, while explaining their techniques and the threats they pose. (demdigest.org)
  • How democracies die' from Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. (grin.com)
  • Incumbents' "manipulation of state institutions and resources is so excessive and one-sided that it seriously limits political competition, (which) is incompatible with democracy" (Levitsky and Way 2010: 6). (epw.in)
  • Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • The Center of East European Studies of Warsaw University has published a monograph "Eastern Europe since 1989: Between the Loosened Authoritarianism and Unconsolidated Democracy. (ipiend.gov.ua)
  • APPLEBAUM: The transition to democracy from communism in 1989, which really occupied the whole of the 1990s. (wosu.org)
  • The media equating both sides, one 'left' and one 'right,' suggests there's a moderate middle between hate and inclusion, between democracy and proto-fascism. (commondreams.org)
  • Due to economic globalization and digitalization, changes in the realms of life and work are vast and far-reaching, with profound consequences for democracy. (berkeley.edu)
  • My research focuses mainly on political parties and coalition politics in Western European parliamentary democracies, focusing on topics such as coalition formation, portfolio allocation, cabinet reshuffles, policy-making in multiparty governments, and legislative behavior. (lu.se)
  • As Brazilian democracy stands at an existential inflection point, it has become clear that a great many Brazilians are willing to trade the meager advances achieved since the return of democracy in 1985 for the moral satisfaction of seeing the PT lose a presidential election for the first time in sixteen years. (newrepublic.com)
  • Before considering this idea seriously, it must be acknowledged that ironically, Saied has proposed the " New Foundation ," a system of councils that would purportedly decentralize decision making and enable citizens to participate in a form of direct democracy. (wagingnonviolence.org)
  • But there is a pattern not only in North America and not only in Europe but also in Asia of assaults on democracy, of a new way of using social media to undermine democracy, of new ways of conceiving of political parties as authoritarian political parties. (wosu.org)
  • Women's rights restrictions undermine democracy. (hrw.org)
  • We should explicitly recognize that when governments tell women where they can go, whom they can or must go with, what they must wear, and whether they can be pregnant or not, those are signs of authoritarianism. (hrw.org)
  • Issues identified included the spread of authoritarianism, selective application of human rights by powerful countries, corruption, and lack of trust in governments and democracy. (lu.se)
  • Experts consistently rate these countries' democracies as strong, while their citizens' satisfaction with democracy and levels of social trust remain very high . (ips-journal.eu)
  • Support for a return to authoritarianism was sharply higher among Russian citizens who expressed discontent with current conditions and had little expectation that their lives would get better over the next five years. (pewresearch.org)
  • The growing complexity of the modern world, the rapid transmission and evolution of information, the yearning for the comfort and relative security of a simpler time, and the feeling of being left out or marginalized by contemporary social and political culture have converted formerly-center-right intellectuals into advocates for authoritarianism. (modernreformation.org)
  • The arrests of well-known journalists and democracy advocates Teesta Setalvad and Mohammed Zubair, as well as of police officers S.B. Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, who had come forward with information on police misconduct, have led to the protests. (thearabposts.com)
  • In Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World , leading scholars address the questions posed by this period of historic change in the Middle East and North Africa. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • The inherent contradictions of this administration, coupled with Brazil's strategic alignment with the United States during World War II, despite its closer political proximity to the Axis powers, eventually led to the end of Vargas's autocratic rule and the re-establishment of democracy. (peacemagazine.org)
  • This volume includes chapters examining several broad themes: the region's shifting political culture, the relationship between democracy and political Islam, the legacy of authoritarian ruling arrangements, the strengths and vulnerabilities of remaining autocracies, and the lessons learned from transitions to democracy in other parts of the world. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Digital authoritarianism presents overlapping and expanding challenges within autocracies and democracies. (csis.org)
  • The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. (greenlightbookstore.com)
  • Though Hans Kelsen is known throughout the world as the founder of a legal theory model, called the Pure Theory of Law, he also penned significant works on the theory of democracy, including The Essence and Value of Democracy (1920). (berkeley.edu)
  • Because we live in a results-driven world, at the moment it would appear that the exponents of authoritarianism are in the ascendant. (tuckmagazine.com)
  • Earlier this month the Chinese Communist Party held an international conference on their "consultative democracy" and its benefits for China-and by implication-the rest of the world. (tuckmagazine.com)
  • Democracy Digest is the most focused and indispensable regular compendium of news and analysis about what is happening to democracy around the world. (demdigest.org)
  • The growing threat of digital authoritarianism is well understood in Washington and other capitals around the world. (csis.org)
  • In an increasingly polarised world, where democracy is threatened by authoritarianism, and violence and inequalities are widespread and growing, the concerted effort at Lund University to study and promote human rights as effective tools for justice is more urgent than ever. (lu.se)
  • The book to buy for insight into what Trump's rise and rule really mean-here and abroad-for democracy in our time. (greenlightbookstore.com)
  • Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law, Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. (demdigest.org)
  • As protests spread across the country, the conflict between the rule of law and authoritarianism is getting more intense in India. (thearabposts.com)
  • In December 31, 1999, New Year's Eve, when you and he threw a big party for journalist friends from London and Berlin, a few diplomats based in Warsaw and Polish friends - and you say on New Year's Eve 1999, they all believed in democracy and the rule of law, but now half the people who were at that party won't talk to the other half. (wosu.org)
  • If the answer to these questions is 'Yes', democracy may be a viable alternative to authoritarian rule. (oxfam.org.uk)
  • When a single party, movement, or ideology gains do not control over the state and the judiciary, democracy nor decent governance can exist in any country. (thearabposts.com)
  • Despite the initial euphoria, the legacies of authoritarianism-polarized societies, politicized militaries, state-centric economies, and pervasive clientelism-have proven stubborn obstacles to the fashioning of new political and social contracts. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Meanwhile, the strong electoral performance of political Islamists and the ensuing backlash in Egypt have rekindled arguments about the compatibility of democracy and political Islam. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Even though progress toward democracy has been halting at best, the region's political environment today bears little resemblance to what it was before the uprisings. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • It suggests that turmoil in Latin American and Brazilian political life in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, such as the coups d'état and the so-called 'return' of authoritarianism in the present day, are precisely due to an absence of structural ruptures that characterized their postcolonial history. (graduateinstitute.ch)
  • Accordingly one of the possible ways to hold back and turn around the authoritarian political tendencies is to try to change the concept and discourse of democracy. (tammilehto.info)
  • Will it be the top down authoritarian political structures of China or the bottom up representative democracies of the US, Canada and Europe? (tuckmagazine.com)
  • They state with absolute conviction that their underlying political structure-which they call consultative democracy-is superior. (tuckmagazine.com)
  • Authoritarianism is not purely political. (castos.com)
  • However, this new republic was marred by a tumultuous relationship with democracy and the inclusion of the population in public and political life. (peacemagazine.org)
  • Women of course experience discrimination and other rights violations in democracies, but a country that has functioning checks and balances - independent courts, media freedom, active political participation, effective accountability, and access to remedies and justice - means women have tools to shield against rollbacks. (hrw.org)
  • At the opening of the new parliament, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has been in power since 1978, promised to transform the country's political system into a multiparty democracy. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • The authors define digital authoritarianism as the use of the Internet and related digital technologies by leaders with authoritarian tendencies to decrease trust in public institutions, increase social and political control, and/or undermine civil liberties. (csis.org)
  • A narrow focus on the party system prevents us from seeing that Modi is engaged in a thoroughgoing suffocation of democracy, to create a fundamentally different kind of political order. (epw.in)
  • The research finds three primary political grievances that are framed as anti-establishment and not as a preference for authoritarianism. (lu.se)
  • This will also allow to establish research networks and academic cooperation between researchers, research groups and institutions from Brazil and Switzerland, especially between PERIFERICAS - Research Group on Social Theories, Modernities and Colonialities, which he leads at the Federal University of Bahia, and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute Geneva. (graduateinstitute.ch)
  • However, the principle is in a constant conflict with the authoritarianism manifested in the hierarchical organization of universities and research establishments. (tammilehto.info)
  • As Herman and Chomsky have shown even in countries posing as liberal democracies mass media constitute a propaganda system: an appearance of pluralism is created by allowing a spectrum of opinions while many important view points and pieces of information are censured. (tammilehto.info)
  • When it comes to realizing the MDGs, democracies have a slight advantage overall, and among and constitute a small majority among the extremely good performers. (oxfam.org.uk)
  • According to the report of International IDEA, all the countries of the Western Balkans, without exception, are classified as democracies. (idea.int)
  • However, it seems that in most countries the spectre of authoritarianism has more power. (tammilehto.info)
  • A respected global data set on democracy places Modi's India among the "top 10 autocratising countries. (epw.in)
  • The race to the bottom will make people rethink the value of democracy," commented The Chinese People's Daily. (tuckmagazine.com)
  • APPLEBAUM: We were roughly - and I mean very roughly - associated with what you would call the center-right, people who were admirers of Margaret Thatcher, people who were anti-communists, people who thought about free markets and who believed Poland should be a market democracy. (wosu.org)
  • For the first time in the country's history, a solid foundation was laid for the broad exercise of democracy by the entire population. (peacemagazine.org)
  • The student will learn about issues such as the development of the state system, the reasons for the entrenchment of authoritarianism in the region, the causes of the Arab Spring, ideological struggles between Islamists and secularists, in addition to ethnic and sectarian divisions and conflicts as well as the role of the international community in the region. (lu.se)
  • Democracy Digest provides consistently insightful perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing democracy support efforts worldwide. (demdigest.org)
  • Democracy Digest provides important thought leadership and editorial oversight, which has a particular urgency in the current crisis - Irwin Cotler, Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. (demdigest.org)
  • Vargas, known as the "Father of the Poor," initiated a process of extended democracy aimed at securing widespread support and containing dissatisfaction. (peacemagazine.org)
  • One of the many welcome aspects to [this] book is its acknowledgment that democracy, like any other form of government, is not forever. (greenlightbookstore.com)
  • The West, on the other hand, will still have the ballot box, which is why, as Winston Churchill, said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. (tuckmagazine.com)
  • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a menacing twenty-first-century twist. (kevinkoperski.com)
  • Soft Author-i-tar-i-an-ism', a New Face of Elec-toral Democracy? (uni-bremen.de)
  • First of all, I'd just like to say thank you to the coalition for human rights and this summit on democracy and tolerance for inviting me. (genevasummit.org)
  • Given incumbent-led autocratization in Tunisia, the article investigates support to democracy among youth in historically marginalized regions and the likelihood they will prefer the authoritarian alternative. (lu.se)
  • Nonetheless, the research also finds that within their conceptualization of democracy are preferences for its limitation in both procedural and substantive dimensions. (lu.se)
  • Doug, a former clinical psychologist and an epic trial consultant, will discuss authoritarianism in this episode, including studies done over the years to support it and its positive and negative impacts. (castos.com)
  • CMES Affiliated Researcher Sarah Anne Rennick has authored an article on support to democracy among marginalized youth in Tunisia in Mediterranean Politics. (lu.se)
  • That is why the propensity to damage democracy in this region is potentially graver. (idea.int)