“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.

According to a new global democracy report, the U.S. has seen a sharp and unusually rapid decline in democratic safeguards.

The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back where it was in 1978, according to new research assessing more than 200 ...

The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...

American democracy under Trump is officially eroding faster than Russian democracy did under Putin.

Democracy is not in decline. The nation-state is. That distinction — between democracy and the nation-state — might seem strange because it is so rarely made. When people around the world talk about ...

President Donald Trump often claims that he has achieved unprecedented levels of success during his first year in office but a damning assessment from one non-partisan group warns that the ...

Is democracy on the decline? One research institution says not only is the answer to that question “yes,” but that the decline has been happening for years – and the so-called democratic recession is ...

Experts on a panel in Athens last week debated how a growth in organizations aimed at countering a rise in autocracies could help turn the tide. By Celestine Bohlen This article is from a special ...

The Open Society Foundations’ latest report, ‘Analysis of the Nexus between Democratic Governance and Economic Justice in Africa’, authored by Senegalese development economist Ndongo Samba Sylla, ...