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When Prosperity Fails: Greece’s Debt Crisis and what Lipset’s Modernization Theory doesn’t show

What happens to democracy when economic prosperity suddenly disappears? In 1959, Seymour Martin Lipset argued that economic development was...

How Democracy Dies Silently Without Brute Force It is rare for a dictator to seize a nation overnight through brute force. Instead, democracies...

Risk Without Breakdown: Andrej Babiš, MAFRA, and Czech Democracy Threats to democracy do not always arrive looking like threats. Sometimes there...

If citizens remove an authoritarian-leaning government through the democratic process of voting, is that the start of democratic recovery? If...

Democracy has been struggling to find a foothold in the Philippines for over a century. A political system with democratic qualities coexists...

In 2023, Polish voters did something that many political scientists thought was almost impossible. They defeated a strong populist government...

Introduction What if a country could still hold elections and call itself a democracy while its political system was becoming increasingly...

On January 22, there was a conviction that had prominent organizations and experts – including UN experts, the International Federation of...

Moldova is an interesting case of a country stuck between two major orientations. It has been tied with Moscow for centuries, getting colonized...