Mexico is a relatively young democracy that emerged from single-party rule less than three decades ago. Under Mr. López ...

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

Embracing the playbook of ruthless dictators such as Putin and Orbán, Trump expands presidential power, wages war on the rule of law  and dismantles democratic institutions, especially those that ...

Sunday’s second round of the Polish presidential election feels like a clash between democratic values and nationalist ...

Explore the dark authority and aggressive nationalism shaping Hungary's illiberal democracy through a personal narrative and ...

She described Orbán as openly wanting to overthrow the concept of Western democracy and replace it with what he has referred to as "illiberal democracy" or "Christian Democracy." Richardson said ...

The strategy for establishing an American version of Orbán’s “illiberal democracy” is not spelled out in any particular chapter of Mandate. Rather, it is woven throughout the whole of the ...

One particular critique of Fukuyama’s argument is more difficult to ignore—the continued growth of illiberal democracy and democratic backsliding. As Freedom House notes in its latest report ...

The characters regarded as people to emulate, like Orbán and Putin and so on, all indicate that the strategy is to create an illiberal democracy or an authoritarian democracy or a strongman ...

But none of them were “illiberal” in the way that an everyday ... Even in a changed world order, American democracy looks reasonably robust. I’ve always been a profound skeptic of full ...