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Leadership is Not a Formula Says Moshik Temkin
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Who is Alexey Navalny? David Herszenhorn Paints a Picture
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Rachel Schwartz on How Guatemala Rose Up Against Democratic Backsliding
Rachel Schwartz is an assistant professor of international and area studies at the University of Oklahoma. Recently, she cowrote an article with Anita Isaacs for the Journal of Democracy called, “How...
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How Can Democracy Survive in an Age of Discontent? Rachel Navarre and Matthew...
Rachel Navarre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Master of Public Administration Program at Bridgewater State University. Matthew Rhodes-Purdy is an Assistant...
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Does Democracy Die in Darkness? Katlyn Carter on Transparency and Secrecy in...
Katlyn Carter is an assistant professor of history at Notre Dame University. She is the author of Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions. Access Bonus Episodes on...
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Greece and Spain
Prime Ministers of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, (left) and Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, (right). Two Unexpectedly Different Political Paths By Alexandros Ntaflos A few days ago, Greece was celebrating the...
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Can America Fight Back Against the Authoritarian Economic Statecraft of...
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Is Islamism Democratic? Sebnem Gumuscu on Islamist Parties in Egypt, Tunisia,...
Sebnem Gumuscu is an associate professor of political science at Middlebury College and the author of Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia. Access Bonus...
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On Constitutions and Democratic Backsliding
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Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case
Josiah Ober is a Professor of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the coauthor, along with Brook Manville, of The Civic Bargain:...
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5 Absolute Must Read Books About Democracy from 2023
By Justin Kempf This list is different than most. What sets it apart is not simply that it focuses on books about democracy, but that it looks for ones that will challenge our assumptions and...
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Is a New Jim Crow Emerging in India? Ashutosh Varshney Gives a Warning
Ashutosh Varshney is the Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University. He is the author of many books and papers on India and its politics. His most...
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Kurt Weyland on the Resilience of Democracy
Kurt Weyland is the Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts. He has written many books. His most recent is Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism. He has also authored the...
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Marcela Rios Tobar on the Failed Constitutional Process in Chile
Marcela Rios Tobar is the Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at International IDEA. From March 2022 until January 2023 she served as the Minister of Justice and Human Rights in Chile under...
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Simon Shuster on Zelensky in War and Peace
Simon Shuster is a staff writer for Time magazine who covers politics in Ukraine and Russia. His new book is called The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr...
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Republicans: Political Party or Threat to the Country?
By Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and David Bernell In 1776, in its Declaration of Independence, the United States of America announced the formation of a new nation that would be based on the principle...
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Can Poland Repair its Constitutional Democracy? Tomás Daly Believes it Can
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After a Coup, Can the Constitutional Order Be Repaired? Adem Abebe on...
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Trump, Congress, the Border, and Foreign Aid (and Biden Too): Add Contents...
U.S – Mexico Border in San Diego. Photo by Amyyfory via Wikimedia Commons By David Bernell and Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. (Retired) There are many things we have learned since Donald Trump declared...
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The Surveillance State in China Began With Mao Says Minxin Pei
Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. His most recent book is The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the...
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