This article analyses the state of democracy around the world in 2021. The level of
democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 was down to 1989 levels. In 2021 …

This article uses a survey amongst students at European universities to explore whether
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes towards European integration. Some …

Influential voices contend that democracy is in decline worldwide and threatened in the US.
Using a variety of measures, I show that—while there has been some recent backsliding …

Climate change, health pandemics, structural decline, and more–the challenges of solving
political problems are daunting, particularly when the political institutions addressing them …

The need to defend democratic values from violent attack was the dominant theme of 2022.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February made democracy's defense a priority of the highest …

The policy process frameworks and theories that are currently considered mainstream were
originally developed in the United States, before traveling to other countries. Despite their …

A ascensão de lideranças autoritárias de extrema direita nas democracias contemporâneas
catalisou processos de retrocesso democrático com profundas e diversas implicações …

The twenty‐first century has been one of democratic backsliding. This has stimulated wide‐
ranging scholarship on the causes of democratic erosion. Yet an overarching framework that …

The early hopes of the internet as a technology of “liberation” have turned into a reinforcing
spiral of control, innovation, resistance, and counter-innovation between authoritarian …

50 years might not seem long in the history of planet Earth, but the last 50 years have had
profound implications for our living planet. 2022 marks the 50 th anniversaries of the United …