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

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, ...

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.

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

Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy offered a dire warning for the United States on Thursday that the "hostile, ...

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

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.

Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy, addresses a crowd in Rome on Oct. 19, 2019. (Andrew Medichini/AP) There are many lessons to be learned from the rise of Donald Trump and his ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...