Riot police detain a demonstrator during a Sept. 21 protest in Moscow of the mobilization of military reservists. (AP) For the first seven months of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, ...

Democracies under pressure: more and more countries are sliding into authoritarian systems of government and democratic systems are on the defensive, according to the latest Bertelsmann Stiftung ...

Autocracy is defined as a system of government where absolute power and authority are concentrated in the hands of a single individual or small ruling elite. Examples of the autocratic rulers that we ...

Most of us like to believe we would have opposed the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. We may even like to imagine that we would have bravely fought for the resistance to Nazism in the 1940s. But would ...

When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs, emperors, and kings whose power ...

The heated 2024 U.S. presidential election is frequently characterized as a choice between democracy and dictatorship, or democracy and autocracy, especially with the publication of Project 2025, the ...

"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy," observed Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in his 1999 book "Development as Freedom." The answer is a ...

Protests erupted in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in October 2020 following disputed parliamentary elections. Only four political parties out of 16 had passed the threshold for entry into ...