July 2005, Volume 16, Issue 3
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Togo, and Zimbabwe.
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July 2005, Volume 16, Issue 3
Reports on elections in Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Togo, and Zimbabwe.
October 2021, Volume 32, Issue 4
Turkeyโs ruling party has developed a new tool: When its local candidates lose, it dismisses them and appoints its own choice under a guise that maintains the veneer of democracy. It is an autocratic innovation that may soon spread.
October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4
Reports on elections in Belize, Cambodia, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Madagascar, the Philippines, and Togo.ย
October 2021, Volume 32, Issue 4
Thirty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia is firmly in the grip of an autocrat. Where did Russiaโs path go wrong?
July 2011, Volume 22, Issue 3
A review of The Quality of Democracy in Latin America, edited by Daniel H. Levine and José E. Molina.
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
Reports on elections in Algeria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Croatia, El Salvador, Indonesia, Iran, Mali, Mongolia, Yemen.
October 2007, Volume 18, Issue 4
Reports on elections in Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Mali, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and Turkey.
January 2024, Volume 35, Issue 1
While the histories of white supremacy and Hindu supremacy are different, their political objectives are much the same. The BJP is forging a regime of exclusion and oppression as brutal as the Jim Crow South. Only Indiaโs voters can reverse its advance.
October 2010, Volume 21, Issue 4
Latin America’s hard-won democratic gains must be defended by addressing he economic disparities fueling a drift toward populism.
July 2021, Volume 32, Issue 3
Beijing is using red tape, procedural rules, and a little help from its authoritarian allies to strangle NGOs seeking to participate in the world body.
October 2022, Volume 33, Issue 4
Democracies are under stress, but they are not about to buckle. The erosion of norms and other woes do not spell democratic collapse. With incredibly few exceptions, affluent democracies will endure, no matter the schemes of would-be autocrats.
January 2018, Volume 29, Issue 1
A tribute in remembrance of Alfred C. Stepan (1936โ2017).
October 2021, Volume 32, Issue 4
In a deeply polarized United States, ordinary people now consume and espouse once-radical ideas and are primed to commit violence.
April 2010, Volume 21, Issue 2
Reports on elections in Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominica, Honduras, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, and Ukraine.
January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
Reports on elections in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Central African Republic, Chile, Congo, Gabon, Honduras, Jordan, Pakistan, Poland, Swaziland, Venezuela.
April 2012, Volume 23, Issue 2
A tribute to Václav Havel—one of the most revered democratic leaders and thinkers of our time—who passed away on 18 December 2011. Included are a document issued by the signers of China's Charter '08 and some reflections, originally published in the Mainichi Daily News, by Aung San Suu Kyi.
July 2023, Volume 34, Issue 3
Under Narendra Modi, India is maintaining the trappings of democracy while it increasingly harasses the opposition, attacks minorities, and stifles dissent. It can still reverse course, but the damage is mounting.
October 2016, Volume 27, Issue 4
Reports on elections in Croatia, Gabon, Mongolia, Sรฃo Tomรฉ and Prรญncipe, Seychelles, and Zambia.
July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3
Reports on elections in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Georgia, Haiti, Iran, Peru, Russia, Senegal, South Korea, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, and Venezuela.
January 2007, Volume 18, Issue 1
Mexico’s system of electoral governance and dispute settlement worked reasonably well, yet it created too much noise and too many needless invitations to distrust. The failures observed were less those of institutions than of actors. The loser reacted deplorably, but none of those involved acted in a manner beyond reproach.