A New World Order? Digital Authoritarianism
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...
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Fall of Democracy in Turkey
Recently, the global rise of democratic regimes that began in the 1970s with the Third Wave of Democratization has come to a halt. In its place,...
Japan: Its Democracy and Freedom of Expression
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
Serbia: A case of Competitive Authoritarianism After the fall of Milosevic in 2000, democratization process started in Serbia. Along with...
Hong Kong, mass protests and their fight against autocratization
In Hong Kong, an unusual kind of protesting started in 2014. Marked by singing and yellow umbrellas, quickly the young students that represented...
Burkina Faso: a 2022 marked by coups d’état
The two military coups occurred in 2022 in Burkina Faso lead to some conclusions about the development of authoritarian systems On 29 November...
The Infamous Transformation of SCOTUS: An American Horror Story
In this epoch, it is not seldom to come across an example of backsliding democracy. In a way, this phenomenon defines the gist of our times....
Hungary: Europe’s Electoral Autocracy
Democratic backsliding refers to the decline or reversal of democratic principles and practices within a political system. This can be caused by...
New strategies for avoiding electoral defeat: manoeuvre prior and after elections on the example of Turkey’s
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a practitioner of new authoritarian methods, initiated in the aftermath of the 2015 parliamentary elections a new concept...