For more than a decade, the former optimism regarding the global spread of liberal democracy has been over. After having observed the third wave of democratisation in the 1990s, today we are rather ...

American democracy under Trump is officially eroding faster than Russian democracy did under Putin.

Why digital activism, fiscal accountability, and transnational movements are reshaping democratic resilience Across ...

In November, the world’s most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their legislature to ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top ...

Propaganda is not simply a tool of manipulation, and in fact a professor of communication suggests it may even be a necessary skill for any citizen to address global challenges. After carrying out ...

Mattia Ferraresi is a writer at the Italian newspaper Domani. The Catholic Church is not known for its democratic practices. The pope is the absolute ruler of a theocratic state with no separation of ...

Trump is working to turn back the clock on decades of progress.

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...

Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...