Toward Consolidated Democracies

Old-fashioned military coups and blatant election-day fraud are becoming mercifully rarer these days, but other, subtler forms of democratic regression are a growing problem that demands more attention.

In emerging democracies and postconflict countries, improved policing is almost always urgently required. Yet international-assistance efforts in this area pay almost no attention to the crucial need to ensure that…

Decentralization, heralded as a means of increasing state efficiency and improving representation, has fragmented Latin America’s already weak party systems