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21 votes
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Defending Taiwan by defending Ukraine – The interconnected fates of the world’s democracies
26 votes -
Congo’s least bad elections: How a fragile democracy inched forward—and how it can consolidate the gains
11 votes -
The specter of nationalism – Identity politics has always influenced elections. In 2024, it will pose a serious threat to liberalism—and to democracy itself.
5 votes -
The curious case of the Danish spy chief and former minister may be over, but key questions about secrecy and democracy remain
6 votes -
Change will come to Russia — abruptly and unexpectedly
23 votes -
With no dedicated government minister or national representation, the Sámi go to the polls in a vote to elect twenty-one members of the Sámi Parliament in Inari, Finland
12 votes -
Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Donald Trump’s vision
91 votes -
How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth
20 votes -
Singapore's Presidential election
8 votes -
Eliminate elections for a better US democracy
25 votes -
US progressives in Congress unveil OLIGARCH Act to combat 'existential threat' of extreme wealth inequality
138 votes -
The case for abolishing elections
17 votes -
‘These are conditions ripe for political violence’: How close is the US to civil war?
8 votes -
America’s self-obsession is killing its democracy
11 votes -
Former federal judge warns of danger to American democracy
11 votes -
Why Denmark is voting on its defence relationship with the EU – and what it says about democracy in Europe
5 votes -
America needs a better plan to fight autocracy
12 votes -
So you want to reform democracy (2015, with updates)
2 votes -
By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.
26 votes -
'Democracy for sale': Analysis ties corporate consolidation to increased lobbying
9 votes -
Hungary formally lost access this week to over €200 million in grants from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein amid growing concerns about the country's democratic backsliding
14 votes -
Japan moves (slowly) toward electoral reform (2016)
4 votes -
Millions in UK face disenfranchisement under voter ID plans
7 votes -
Kenan Malik: ‘By demonising asylum seekers, Denmark reflects a panic in social democracy’
8 votes -
Trump took a wrecking ball to media credibility—can Biden repair it?
7 votes -
Why Obama fears for our democracy
11 votes -
Is this a coup?
29 votes -
Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight
18 votes -
Protests and power
6 votes -
The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary
31 votes -
We don’t know how to warn you any harder. America is dying.
25 votes -
Democracy maybe?
4 votes -
Trump’s latest firing seems to have violated four democratic values
17 votes -
Why conservative intellectuals like Viktor Orbán
6 votes -
A series of articles on the state of American democracy from early 2015 by Vox
American democracy is doomed ('constitutional hardball' is a great way to describe the 'modus operandi' of the Trump-McConnell GOP.) This is how the American system of government will die I found...
American democracy is doomed ('constitutional hardball' is a great way to describe the 'modus operandi' of the Trump-McConnell GOP.)
This is how the American system of government will die
I found their predictions to be kinda interesting (and clearly minimal)
The best-case scenario is that we wind up with an elective dictator but retain peaceful transitions of power. This is where I'd place my bet. Pure parliamentary systems, especially unicameral ones, give high levels of power to the prime minister and his cabinet, and manage to have peaceful transitions nonetheless. The same is true in Brazil, where the presidency is considerably more powerful than it is in the US.
But parliamentary systems also feature parties that are stronger than their leaders, which serve to prevent single individuals from garnering too much power. America's parties are getting more polarized, but they still aren't as strong as those of most other developed nations.
The worst-case scenario is if the presidency attains these powers and someone elected to the office decides to use them to punish political enemies, interfere with elections, suppress dissent, and so forth. Retaining an independent enough judiciary is a guard against this, but only if norms around obeying its rulings are strong. And, unusually, America allows for true independents, undisciplined by their parties, to become heads of government.
The US political system is not gonna collapse. It's gonna muddle though (A pretty interesting take. There are problems but people won't try to fix them but instead become disengaged and kinda forget about it.)
I think one of the things the authors missed while writing these this is how news became partidarized in the same manner, thus allowing outlets like Fox News to just consume the Republican electorate. They also missed how voting has been targeted too, and underestimated how willing the public was to act and how would the public react to this, which was by electing someone who didn't care about said broken Congress (or any sort of constitutionality), which is what became of Trump.
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A few articles on the Polish elections' breakdown
Poland 'holds' ghost election with 0% turnout (mostly explains what and who led up to this.) Opposition 'slams' presidential election by post (citing lack of preparation, mostly.) Polish election...
Poland 'holds' ghost election with 0% turnout (mostly explains what and who led up to this.)
Opposition 'slams' presidential election by post (citing lack of preparation, mostly.)
Polish election delayed indefinitely with just 4 days to go (mostly the same as the first article, but also cites how the later these elections are held, the worse Duda (current Polish president) 's chances unsurprisingly become.)
Race to the bottom: all Polish election outcomes are bad [opinion article] (a short analysis on the possibility routes the election could have taken. Admittedly somewhat outdated given the elections have clearly been postponed.
Related article: Poland's ruling party just made it's anti-democratic intention radically clear (tl;dr they're really invested in 'illiberal democracy', not too unlike the Republican party.)
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#DemocracyRIP: What the Russian government did to the 2016 elections in the US was just the beginning
9 votes -
Hungary no longer a democracy, Freedom House says
17 votes -
Why the two-party system is the root of the problems in the US's constitutional democracy
9 votes -
How China sees the world - And how the world should see China
11 votes -
Republicans are trying to kick thousands of voters off the US electoral rolls during a pandemic
12 votes -
If the US postal service dies, so does democracy — Republicans are now trying to kill the post office and mail-in voting
4 votes -
Modern Venezuela shows the eerie conclusion of illiberal politics
5 votes -
2020 elections: an expert on why you should be worried about your vote in 2020
4 votes -
The alarming scope of Presidential power during an emergency
4 votes -
How the US has changed to become gradually more democratic over time
4 votes -
Revolt, populism, and reaction
5 votes -
Why the Republican party turned undemocratic
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“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
13 votes