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Applebaum’s clarion warnings appear in articles published in The Atlantic and two New York Times best-selling books on authoritarianism: “Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the ...
While comparing any modern political figure to those of this era is fraught, Weimar Germany remains one of modern history's most infamous examples of the collapse of a democracy and the rise of ...
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 ...
U.S. officials have been accused of collaborating with oppressive and anti-democratic governments to secure their military bases in Central America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The Economist Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five currently non-democratic U.S. military base host countries as "authoritarian governments". [4]
[112] [113] V-Dem has measures on democracy starting in 1789, providing rare historical data to compare backsliding events, though comparing across centuries has challenges. [114] V-Dem also scores political parties in an annual illiberalism score, and ranked the Republican Party more similar to authoritarian parties than typical center-right ...
[6] [7] [8] In the same year, Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance classified India as a backsliding democracy, citing similar reasons. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] According to The Guardian , the Indian government dismissed the reports, saying self-appointed people cannot be custodian of democracy for India, [ 11 ] but expressing concern about the ...
The Stockholm-based organization said in its annual Global Report on the State of the Democracy that the number of countries moving toward authoritarianism is more than double those moving toward ...
When looking at these countries and others, it is evident that delegative democracies are not institutionalized as they are the midpoint between authoritarianism and representative democracy. When looking at authoritarianism, authoritarianism is a type of government that focuses on strong centralized powers, leaving the population to having ...