Political science scholars emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions in a Wednesday event marking the launch ...

In recent years, the global political landscape has witnessed a notable decline in political trust in public institutions.

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

The Economist Democracy Index rates countries on the state of their governing system each year. In the latest edition, corresponding to the year 2024, only 25 countries, representing 6.6% of the world ...

Although globalization has historically allowed democracy to succeed in the creation of the current world order, it is also ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado lauded the Indian democracy and called it an example for countries around the world.

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, but "our people don't even have gas even to cook. That's a disaster," María ...

Several of the leaders President Trump will encounter are either autocrats or presiding over fragile democracies. And some ...

We’re seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system. And no one is ...

Valere Gaspard is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa and a Research Fellow at Western University and Trent University’s Leadership and Democracy Lab. His research is supported in part by ...