Turkey: How the Coup Failed

Election Results—February 2024

Reports on elections in Comoros, El Salvador, Senegal, and Tuvalu.

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Inside Orbán’s Plan to Occupy Europe

• Kim Lane Scheppele

The Hungarian prime minister is on a mission to overrun Brussels, disrupt the EU, and consolidate his power at home. It just might work.

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Is Central America Doomed?

• Mateo Jarquín
• Rachel A. Schwartz
• Kai M. Thaler

Of course not. But the region’s democratic hopes are fighting an uphill battle against corruption, crime, and a violent past.

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Tracking the “Arab Spring”: Syria and the Future of Authoritarianism

Can Mexico’s Next President Control the Military?

• Will Freeman

The country’s military brass has a larger role governing Mexico than at any time in the past eighty years. It’s creating a dangerous dependency that won’t be easy to break. Can the generals be reined in? 

Competitive Authoritarianism: A Conversation with Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way

On 23 January 2020, Journal of Democracy editorial board co-chairs Lucan Way and Steven Levitsky sat down with the Journal’s Brent Kallmer to discuss the new competitive authoritarianism that has emerged in some countries with relatively strong democratic traditions and institutions.

February 11, 2020

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The Upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia: The Road to (and from) Liberation Square

Strife and Secession in Sudan

The Authoritarian Resurgence: Forward to the Past in Russia

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Comparing the Arab Revolts: The Role of the Military