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How Democratic Backsliding Hurts Elections? The Case of Orban’s Victory in 2022 Hungary General Elections

Hungary was seen as the success story of democratization among post-communist countries. When Orbán won the majority in 2010, democratic...

Following the 2020 presidential election results in favor of Lukashenko, Belarusians move to the streets demanding free and fair elections and...

Turkey has recently enacted a new law on media disinformation, which has sparked widespread concern and criticism from human rights...

Once described as the champion of the third wave of democratization in Europe, Hungary has become a pioneer of democratic backsliding. The...

A recent attempted coup has rocked Peru. Former president Pedro Castillo dissolved congress and attempted to install a “Government of Exception”...

Kate Crawford in her book Atlas of AI argues that AI “grew on the battlefield where it was used to detect enemies, strange objects and maintain...

Recently, the rise of democratic regimes that began after the 1970s or the Third Wave of Democratization has stopped. This wave was then replaced...

It is described that the freedom of expression, one of the indispensable elements to remain the nation democratic, in Japan has gradually...

Serbia: A case of Competitive Authoritarianism After the fall of Milosevic in 2000, democratization process started in Serbia. Along with...