A new report from the University of East Anglia has raised concerns about the state of democracy around the world during 2024 ...

Growing political dissatisfaction around the world has changed the global outlook towards democracy. We have witnessed mass ...

During this year of global elections, we have seen challenges to democracy, a rise in populism and political violence, incumbent parties ousted and surprising wins and defeats around the world.

Varieties of Democracy, a global think tank, ... To be sure, these national level trends are not good news. But they paint a misleading picture of the state of democracy on this planet, ...

Global Trends in Institutional Trust from 1958 to 2019, British Journal of Political Science (2025). DOI: 10.1017/S0007123424000498 Provided by University of Southampton ...

While the U.S. moves away from its global role, the foreign policy goal of democracy promotion will also wither away; it's unclear who will have the legitimacy (or desire) to uphold democratic values.

As the U.S. and others struggle to confront AI-driven disinformation, Taiwan’s resilience has become its latest key export.

Baseline electoral democracy scores provide further evidence of a global decline in democracy. In 2003, 11 countries were in the process of autocratizing. In 2023, that number nearly quadrupled to 42.

A Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) professor will join a five-person fellowship cohort to examine democracy’s role in the world and propose ideas to strengthen democratic networks, the university ...

One is that, across 30 countries, "support for democracy has declined by 7 percentage points" over the past decade. In others, like South Africa and Mali, it has fallen dramatically, by 20 points ...

The Trump regime has decimated the Agency for Global Media, restructured the State Department to eliminate a global democracy ...

His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July 16. You can purchase it here. ... To explain what truly happened, we need to look at global trends as a point of comparison.