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

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

What began as a regional rebuttal to liberalism has evolved into a global script for authoritarian regimes resisting ...

Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, who had emphatically declared his nation to be an “illiberal democracy”, is an old friend of the Israeli politician. Of their many alliances, one of the ...

The Trump administration’s illiberal and anti-intellectual ultimatums have had ... Higher education’s role in upholding democracy It is easy to imagine a future historian assigning similar guilt to ...

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 Associated Press Hungary's 'illiberal democracy' may be a roadmap for Trump's new term Posted: February 15, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has become ...

In Hungary, opposition parties have struggled to gain traction against the 15-year “illiberal democracy” government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Institutional and media dominance favours the ...

An illiberal version of “democracy” then emerges, which – in the name of the people – attacks the checks and balances that are crucial to liberal democracy. That seems to be what is ...

However, Bangladesh’s entrenched political culture, rooted in decades of illiberal democracy, violence, and bad governance, casts a long shadow over this prospect. A clash among the BNP ...

necessitating eternal vigilance to save democracy from illiberal leaders. The dynamics of Africa’s largest democracy with its prebendal democracy makes it vulnerable to illiberals in strategic ...