Authoritarian Watch / The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United ...

The Bertelsmann Stiftung's new transformation index says that the world is becoming increasingly autocratic and existing autocracies are becoming more entrenched. One of the few counter-examples: ...

The market economy made us comparatively rich, subject to increasing regulation and taxation, which both hindered and helped.

IDS authors argue there is an urgent need to rethink democracy by centring people, power, and inequality, and put forward eight building blocks to strengthen democracy and resist democratic decline.

In Trump's first year back in power, the nation's democracy score dropped 24% and the U.S. world ranking has fallen from 20th ...

A cross-national comparison reinforced the report’s alarming message. The experts rated Israel’s democracy at 49 and Mexico’s ...

Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Daron Acemoglu said the spread of free information can ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of ...

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one. A broad and inclusive tax base strengthens shared governance, while its ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of ...

This past weekend, millions of protesters showed up at "No Kings" marches at thousands of locations, including in multiple ...

A trio of reports on political freedom around the world raises timely alarms about autocratic tendencies. But the data also ...