Backsliding Democracies News Today

While most nations in attendance are “free” societies, according to a recent report, dozens are struggling or backsliding. Here’s a guide.

Way tyrants and dictators twist the truth. and the author of "on tyranny," thank you for joining us. you said the most distressing thing about american news coverage is we dont treat the end of democracy as the story. which is an incredibly alarming statement. why do you believe about the -- what do you believe about the end of democracy? >> well, i guess anderson, we should probably get the alarm part out of the way so we can move on to the serious analysis and the repair because i think what w...

Say i am shocked by this, what we really mean is we are not prepared to face thing the way we are. we are not prepared to act. most democracies fail. the patterns we have seen in this country, especially in the last four years, are typical backsliding democracies so i think it is very important for us to face that reality, to write about it as journalists. to treat it as the mainstream because we dont treat it as mainstream, what we end up doing is saying democrats say this, republicans say this...

Person to make their voice heard. to free fair and secure elections. >> im sorry. what was that? youre going to keep fighting? is this president labor on the miss apprehension that what his administration has done so far counts as fighting? that is even sufficient? as ive already reported on this show this week, because the president is correct that there is an urgent issue facing the nation, but were almost a year into his first term in office and not a single piece of voting rights legislation...

Literally means rule by the people. a system of government determined by the people and for the people. while its never quite perfected it, the united states of america was a hallmark of democracy since the ink dried of the constitution in 1787. things have largely improved since then. the civil rights movement made voting fairer and more accessible to all. last week, a european think tank called the international institute for democracy an electoral assistance, placed the united states on its l...

The United States has joined an annual list of "backsliding" democracies for the first time, the International IDEA think-tank said on Monday, pointing to a "visible deterioration" it said began in 2019.

About 160 countries are divided into three groups: democracies, including "backsliding" democracies, "hybrid" governments, and authoritarian regimes. 

Fear has come to pass. for the first time ever the us has been added to an annual list of so—called backsliding democracies according to the international idea thinktank. it says the visible deterioration began in 2019. and looking at the bigger picture the number of backsliding democracies globally has doubled in the past decade accounting for a quarter of the world s population. what to make of the claims? kevin casas—zamora is international ideas secretary general and joins me now from br...