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Clear Democratic Erosion in South Korea: How the Presidency of Yoon Suk-yeol is Undermining Democracy

"송도동, Incheon, South Korea"/ CC0 1.0 Democratic erosion can be defined as the gradual weakening of democratic institutions in a particular...

The people of Ecuador were facing chronic turnover in government leading to loss of morale, stability, and hope. That had experienced years of...

“Hitler, who dreamed of conquering the world, was alone when he died. Therefore, abandon the Hitler style.”...

Over the past decades, Zambia has been met with democratic erosion that has spread around the globe. Many aspects of a once functioning democracy...

Sudan was a country with a prosperous democratic future in 2019, yet today the nation remains worse off than it initially began. With significant...

In the last two years, El Salvador has witnessed an unprecedented state-led crackdown on gang violence under President Nayib Bukele. The...

Recent events in the Philippines demonstrate how democratic backsliding can be very slow and quiet, but still impactful. In particular, it...

In August of this year Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority blocked the social media platform Instagram as an effort to...

Democratic backsliding is a process often marked not by dramatic coups, but by subtle, legal maneuvers that gradually weaken democratic norms....