Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ...

A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

The author laid the groundwork for his thesis that judges, whom he calls “the selectorate”, have toppled the people in ...

In recent years, Political Science has been deeply concerned with the global shift toward authoritarianism, posing ...

Trump wants to give his agents the unchecked ability to round up whoever they want, whenever they want, without charges or court review.

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy ...

Ohio lawmakers are secretly orchestrating a constitutional coup against public education governance, tucked deep within the state budget where few would notice, and the Today in Ohio podcast is ...

Murphy said he believes Democrats have to make the destruction of Democracy their top issue when taking on President Donald Trump. “I believe there’s no guarantee that we are gonna have a free ...

Wolf connects this breakdown of the social contract to the rise of authoritarianism: “When capitalism no longer delivers shared prosperity and democracy no longer gives people a voice, voters turn to ...

For the last two years, the military has exercised overarching influence over government formation in Pakistan and has established a series of provisions for the institutionalization of authoritarian ...

The letter to the editor argues that President Donald Trump exhibits authoritarian and autocratic ... public sentiment is crucial to preserving democracy. Here is this week’s letter to the ...

The first months of the second Trump administration have delivered blow after blow to American efforts to promote democracy abroad and pierce the information wall of authoritarian governments ...