Democratic Decline News Today

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Regions nationwide will sync their election dates for the first time, but President Jokowi’s thumb remains on the scales, writes Chris Morris (ANU)

The India Fix: A newsletter on Indian politics from Scroll.in.

The India Fix: A newsletter on Indian politics from Scroll.in.

Allowing Cambodia’s opposition parties greater political freedom will not jeopardise Hun Sen's hold on power, and may add legitimacy to his succession plans.

Hun Manet needs to demonstrate to the young population that the Cambodian People’s Party deserves to run the state, writes Mun (Mark) Vong (Griffith University).

The paper 'Subjective and Objective Measures of Democratic Backsliding', by associate professors Andrew Little from the University of California at Berkeley, and Anne Meng of the University of Virginia, says that despite the general narrative that we are in a period of global democratic decline, there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to assess whether this is systematically true

After the Brazilian presidential election and the American midterms, checking the temperature on the state of democracy in a world that has been heading in the opposite direction for too long.

By now, everyone should be — probably is — aware of the fact that democracy’s in deep trouble around the globe. When I say deep, I mean deep. How bad is it? I want to spend a few minutes discussing…

By now, everyone should be — probably is — aware of the fact that democracy’s in deep trouble around the globe. When I say deep, I mean deep. How bad is it? I want to spend a few minutes discussing…