Author: Larry Diamond, StanfordSince the mid 1990s, the proportion of countries in the world that are democracies – countries that meet the standard of at least electoral democracies in the sense that they can choose their leaders and replace them in free and fair elections – has stagnated, at around 60 and 62.5 per cent.The world is experiencing a democratic recession. There are three dimensions... [Read Post]
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