Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi was sworn in for a second and final term Wednesday after five turbulent years in office amid two armed insurgencies.
Direct Democracy and Ballot Initiatives articles on Democracy Chronicles
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20th century dictators vs. 21st-century autocrats
Can contemporary authoritarians be compared to 20th-century dictators? Not exactly, given incoherent ideology, mass violence and weak personality cult.
Idealpolitik vs. Realpolitik: Idealism or ‘realism with a moral face’?
For Krastev and Benardo, “idealism is effective only when it understands how power operates—particularly when it recognizes the limits of American power”.
Can Sudan’s ‘unlikely transition’ beat the odds?
Ashley Quarcoo, an international development practitioner, probes Sudan’s trajectory to transition to democracy and possible inhibiting factors.
Democratic recession drives worries about US decline in new anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism today is less about the exercise of unrivaled U.S. power but more about a U.S. retreat from both global leadership and liberal democracy.
Recession is just the natural order of things for self-regulating democracy
Schadenfreudian pundits emphasise that democracy is moribund but key experts say it may be more resilient than we think and must face a period of recession.
About non-institutional reforms for boosting the civic fabric
Gillian Tett of the Financial Times has argued that apart from institutional reforms, there are more old-fashioned ways to boost the civi fabric.
UK Conservatives Secure Historic Parliamentary Majority
Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a solid majority of seats in Britain’s Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election.
Strong norms and operational principles, imperatives for upholding democracy
The cluster of organizations around the NED has evolved into “a huge apparatus” with its strong norms and operational principles.
British MPs take government to task on alleged delay of publication of “Russia”
Tuesday, Britain’s opposition lawmakers took government to task on alleged delay in publication of report titled “Russia” on Russian interference in Brexit.