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With all due respect to Ms. Applebaum and others, I have a more sanguine view of U.S. politics in this moment for several reasons: First, history is on American democracy’s side.
Opinion: Republicans have laid out an explicit path to autocracy if Donald Trump becomes president; democracy is at stake, writes Steve Corbin. Read Project 2025 to see how radically Donald Trump ...
Growing authoritarianism is the backdrop for the world’s largest election, India’s month-long voting in April and May. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is favored to win a third five-year term.
In 2021, the Swedish political research institute Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) lowered India's ranking from flawed democracy to electoral autocracy, citing alleged increasing nationalist rhetoric and diminishing freedom of expression under the government of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
[1] [2] Political scientists have created typologies describing variations of authoritarian forms of government. [2] Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party or the military. [3] [4] States that have a blurred boundary between democracy and authoritarianism have some times been ...
Democratic backsliding [a] 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.
Under Weimar, political infighting made it impossible to present a united front against rising authoritarianism. Today, the center right and center left are unified in their efforts to prevent ...
In particular, Kahn suggested that policy should promote democracy even in the countries dominated by Soviet communism. Kahn argued that the Polish labor-union Solidarity deserved United States support and even in its first years demonstrated that civil society could expand and that free labor unions could be organized despite Communist regimes ...