The Third Wave: Inside the Numbers

Issue Date October 2013
Volume 24
Issue 4
Page Numbers 97-109
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Is democracy threatened by a “reverse wave”? Examining regional patterns and distinguishing between different types of democracy gives us a new basis for assessing this question.

Listen to the podcast with authors Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning [mp3]

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Further Reading

Volume 18, Issue 3

Exchange: The Vain Hope for “Correct” Timing

The history of many of today’s established democracies shows that “out-of-sequence” democratization can lead to eventual success.

Volume 9, Issue 1

Democracy and Utopia

Volume 30, Issue 1

The Road to Digital Unfreedom: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression

Democracies must grapple not only with the proliferation of AI to authoritarian and illiberal regimes, but also with the temptation that AI poses for democratic governments themselves.