During the past decade, analyses drawing on several democracy measures have shown a
global trend of democratic retrenchment. While these democracy measures use radically …

Liberal democracy is facing renewed challenges from a growing group of states undergoing
democratic backsliding. While entrenched autocrats have long resented and contested the …

Abstract Although the European Union (EU) is considered unrivaled in its democracy
promoting abilities, democracy is being challenged within its borders. Over the last decade …

Liberal democracy is facing renewed challenges from a growing group of states undergoing
democratic backsliding. While entrenched autocrats have long resented and contested the …

The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of, subsequent political
challenges to, and decline of, contemporary liberal democratic processes, in particular since …

Social media has a significant impact on the process of political polarization. Despite a large
body of research on polarization and social media in democracies, studying this relationship …

Even though the Austrian media system is comparably small, the number and the capacity of
available sources for an analysis of risks and opportunities for deliberative communication in …

Im Zusammenhang mit der Resilienz unserer auf Menschen-und Bürgerrechten, der
Herrschaft des Rechts, der Demokratie und den kulturellen Traditionen gegründeten …

This thesis investigates individuals' support for arms shipments to countries at war,
employing an original online survey experiment (N= 255) in Germany. Since the effect of …

This study investigates the change of political regime in Myanmar from 1948 to 2022 and the
democratization dynamics during each period. Based on the history in Myanmar, this thesis …