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Democracy Support Declines in the Americas
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The dividends of democracy are worth the investment required
History is replete with grotesque forms of human oppression, including slavery, racism, and oligarchies crushing people's aspirations. Today, the continued...
Speaker Russel Donald Kinder will address democracy and prejudice
University of Michigan psychology and political science professor Donald Kinder has studied closely the work of a Swedish economist who...
Despite vote to decertify election results, Florida Sen. Rick Scott says ‘democracy prevailed’ in wake of Capitol riots | Florida News | Tampa
Click to enlarge Photo via National Republican Senate Committee Rick Scott with former President Donald Trump. As the one-year anniversary...
Why spite could destroy liberal democracy – Simon McCarthy-Jones
Some voters backed Donald Trump in the 2016 US election to upset Hillary Clinton, even though they thought he would...
“The bad loser effect”: rejection of election results can destabilize democracy and lead to terrorism
Through Jacques Square, State of pennsylvania A participant in a political rally in October 2021 organized by right-wing activist Charlie...
Cuba: More democracy or more repression | International
The Cuban regime's damage limitation policies face the impact of the counterrevolutionary population of July 11, whose aftershocks will force...
David Van Note: The immediate and direct threat to American democracy | Letters
In a letter to the editor last week, a writer touted the Trump administration's great accomplishments and expressed support and...
Liberal democracy is still under threat
Photo by ALEX EDELMAN / AFP via Getty Images Sighs of relief could be heard around the world after Joe...
Should we rethink liberal democracy?
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Republicans torpedo voting debate at dangerous time for democracy
When Senate Republicans unanimously voted to block debate on the freedom to vote law on Wednesday, they realized Mitch McConnell's...
The decline and fall of American democracy is here
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Here’s how we can, but probably won’t, fix our failing democracy
Photo by Dave DeckerIn a investigation taken this summer by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, 83%...
Congress is powerless to completely stop statewide threats to democracy
Midterms 2022 begin in a few months, and American democracy will undergo a big stress test. GOP state legislatures assert...
Why spite could destroy liberal democracy
As communism imploded in 1989, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama asked if liberal democracy was "the end of history,"...
Slovenian President insists his country has not abandoned liberal democracy as it takes over the rotating EU presidency
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Achilles heel of liberal democracy | The week
January 29, 2021January 29, 2021Critics of liberal democracy have long accused it of being weak, resembling more a debating society...
The fading light of liberal democracy
"For the first time this century, among countries with over a million inhabitants, there are now fewer democracies than undemocratic...
Rule of law and direct democracy: a strained relationship
A protest outside the United States Supreme Court Rod Lamkey / DPA In the United States, courts are called after...
Slow death of liberal democracy
The Constitution of India has a preamble. Few read the preamble or understand its meaning. Even those familiar with certain...
Across the Aisle: Slow Death of Liberal Democracy
Following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Trump wasted no time in nominating Justice Amy Coney Barrett to...
Opinion: Catholicism is not an inherent threat to liberal democracy
NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) — In his search for the secret of American democracy in the 1830s, French aristocrat Alexis...
Trump’s “Historic Bloc” and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy
How come working-class whites and significant numbers of Latinos can support Donald Trump, a self-glorifying billionaire who has nothing in...
Tech News: Rise of Fake Synthetic Media Could Threaten Liberal Democracy | World | New
Deep fakes: the technology behind artificial intelligenceThe warning comes from political commentator Nina Schick, author of 'Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse'....
Save liberal democracy
I belong to a wealthy generation. Born in the UK in 1944, towards the end of a world war that...
Save liberal democracy | ASEAN Post
I belong to a lucky generation. Born in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1944, towards the end of a world...
James Madison’s Last Fight: Are We Witnessing the End of Liberal Democracy?
Recent events - from Black Lives Matter protests to a show trial for an impeached president, to the poorly managed...
Reviews | “The whole of liberal democracy is in grave danger at the moment”
Or consider an article from 2019, "False equivalence: Are liberals and conservatives in the United States equally biased? " through...
The threats of liberal democracy from within
While the United States is spending its energy fighting against itself, the rest of the world is on the move...
How a meeting with Donald Trump put the Bangladeshi minority rights activist in the eye of the storm
A Bangladeshi minority rights activist found a rare opportunity to meet President Donald Trump in the White House, but those...
Liberal Democracy in Decline, Should We Be Worried?
As the world watches with awe and awe the greatest democracy on the planet go to the polls, why should...
How Twitter could be the death of liberal democracy
This week has been deeply demoralizing for American media and democratic culture - a week with implications that may well...
What happens next? Lessons for the resumption of liberal democracy
Abstract Democracy in America suffers from a pattern of institutional decline that has lasted for decades. The candidacy and election...
Saving liberal democracy from extremes
"Nothing excessive". This motto, also known as "the golden mean", was displayed in the ancient sanctuary of Delphi. Such restraint...
Can liberal democracy survive another financial crisis? – European Council on Foreign Relations
In recent weeks, media around the world have celebrated the tenth anniversary of a landmark event in the global financial...
George Soros bet big on liberal democracy. Now he is afraid of losing.
Soros said he could not travel to Hungary under the current circumstances: "It would be toxic," he said. He told...
How liberal democracy collapsed
March 15, 2018Listen to this storyYour browser does not support the item .Enjoy more audio and podcasts on ios Where...
The Double Threat to Liberal Democracy – Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik The crisis of liberal democracy is today severely criticized. Donald Trump's presidency, the Brexit vote in the UK...
The Double Threat to Liberal Democracy by Dani Rodrik
Illiberal democracy - or populism - is not the only political threat facing Western countries. Liberal democracy is also undermined...
Direct democracy threatens the way we are governed
There are living citizens of Britain who were born before mass representative democracy. Not all women had the right to...
Threats to liberal democracy | The Japan Times
LONDON - Emmanuel Macron's overwhelming victory over right-wing nationalist Marine Le Pen in the last round of the French presidential...
If the EU is to be the bastion of liberal democracy, it too must stop demonizing refugees and migrants
European Union officials have not hesitated to voice their condemnation of the permanent ban imposed by US President Donald Trump...
How Direct Democracy Breeds Majoritarianism
Democracy is designed to be the panacea for human liberation and the fountain of justice that will cure all social...
McKenzie Wark on Chantal Mouffe and Liberal Democracy – Frontpage
For Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark writes about political theory and Chantal Mouffe's “demos†and Mouffe's growing relevance in light of...
Is the era of liberal democracy coming to an end?
In August 2012, some 200 right-wing extremists gathered on the Rütli meadow, considered the birthplace of Switzerland. The far right...
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Are we witnessing the death throes of American liberal democracy?
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NYAlexis de Tocqueville, a liberal...
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