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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.
Their extreme agenda, if carried out, would fundamentally alter the institutions of American democracy as we know it. [93] [94] Hillary Clinton, whom Trump defeated in 2016, said in October 2023 that Trump was likely to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee and if elected "will wreck our democracy," likening his MAGA supporters to a "cult ...
According to the 2020 report of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Hungary had by 2019 become the first-ever EU member state to become an authoritarian regime. [27] On Freedom House's annual report, Hungary's democracy rating dropped for ten consecutive years. [ 28 ]
A 2020 study linked democratization to the mechanization of agriculture: as landed elites became less reliant on the repression of agricultural workers, they became less hostile to democracy. [ 97 ] According to political scientist David Stasavage , representative government is "more likely to occur when a society is divided across multiple ...
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Lewis cites the dissenting opinion by Brandeis in Olmstead v. United States, which supported a right to privacy. [5] [12] Lewis warns that, during periods of heightened anxiety, the free speech rights of Americans are at greater risk: "there will always be authorities who try to make their own lives more comfortable by suppressing critical ...
Jay Leno offered some positive thoughts on the role democracy played in the 2024 U.S. presidential election shortly after news organizations called the race for former President Donald Trump.