The global ascendance of populism has produced an explosion of research, bringing
together scholarship on American and comparative politics as well as encouraging …

“The pandemic is a portal.” In the words of the novelist scholar Arundhati Roy, the COVID-19
pandemic is not merely an epic calamity. It has opened up a new space, a portal, to rethink …

Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected
governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected …

A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism,
from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its …

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted by a 52 to 48 margin to leave the European
Union. The result of the EU referendum was the latest and most dramatic expression of long …

Why did Russia's relations with the West shift from cooperation a few decades ago to a new
era of confrontation today? Some explanations focus narrowly on changes in the balance of …

The post–Cold War world has been marked by the proliferation of hybrid political regimes. In
different ways, and to varying degrees, polities across much of Africa (Ghana, Kenya …

The liberal international order, erected after the Cold War, was crumbling by 2019. It was
flawed from the start and thus destined to fail. The spread of liberal democracy around the …

The Journal of Democracy began publishing in 1990 in an era of hopeful, even exhilarating,
expansion of democracy around the world. Democracy was on the march not only literally …

The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of
modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of …