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Democracy faced its most serious crisis in decades in 2017 as its basic tenets—including guarantees of free and fair elections, the rights of minorities, freedom of the press, and the rule of law—came under attack around the world.
As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world in 2020, democracy’s defenders sustained heavy new losses in their struggle against authoritarian foes, shifting the international balance in favor of tyranny.
The most serious setbacks for freedom and democracy were the result of war, coups, and attacks on democratic institutions by illiberal incumbents. The authoritarian regime in Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in a bid to scuttle that country’s hard-won democratic progress.
In this special essay for Encyclopædia Britannica Anniversary Edition: 250 Years of Excellence (2018), Madeleine Albright explained why she thinks democracy is under threat.
- Madeleine K. Albright
Jul 3, 2024 · A study of US democracy promotion programs conducted between the critical post-Cold War period of 1990 and 2003 found that democracy assistance had “clear and consistent impacts” on overall democratization, including civil society, judicial and electoral processes, and media independence. 13 Steven E. Finkel, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, and Mitchell A. Seligson, “The Effects of US Foreign ...
This chapter outlines possible connections between democracy and freedom. First, it is shown that there is indeed a robust positive correlation between democracy and various forms of liberal freedom. Second, the chapter examines and critiques an argument purporting to show that exercising equal political power in a democracy directly enhances ...
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Jul 1, 2024 · We’re running a series about the outlook for democracy hosted by the FT’s chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf. He’s been talking to leading political thinkers about what this year — a ...
