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There has never been a more critical time for a minority party to get creative, stand up and fight. So far, the Democrats’ public response has consisted of televised pressers, as when Sen. Patty ...
A 2022 Quinnipiac University poll found that 69 percent of Democrats and Republicans and 66 percent of Independents think American democracy is "in danger of collapse". [123] Heading toward the 2024 elections, polls indicated that Democrats and Republicans alike had serious concerns about democratic backsliding, though for starkly different ...
Democratic backsliding [a] or autocratization is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
How Democracies Die is a 2018 comparative politics book by the Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about democratic backsliding and how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power.
But Democrats have not kept pace, losing 4% of their share of registered voters, while Republicans picked up 8%, as of Oct. 1. What was a six-point advantage for Democrats four years ago is now ...
The commitment by Trump to bring prices down was what Americans cared about most in 2024. Republican politicians knew they could never honor it, short of triggering a recession.
Democrats couldn’t defend their awful policies Regarding Rekha Basu’s Nov. 17 column where she struggles to address the severe beating incurred by the left in the election: The answer is ...
The coinciding tenure from 2017 to 2021 of ANO 2011 leader Andrej Babiš and his ally, President Miloš Zeman, has been described by analysts Sean Hanley and Milada Anna Vachudova as a period of democratic backsliding, albeit to a less drastic degree than Poland or Hungary. [5]