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May 10, 2022

🌊 Christian democracy is to blame for Europe’s democratic backsliding

Martino Comelli

Christian democracy is the political culture that has been the driving force behind European integration. Yet, according to Martino Comelli, it has also facilitated the democratic backsliding of some countries of central and east Europe by providing an illiberal political toolbox of narratives and policies

April 8, 2022

🌊 The sad state of democracy in Uganda and Rwanda

Hannah Muzee

The new democratically oriented regimes that emerged in Rwanda and Uganda after the 1980s aspired to overcome postcolonial sectarianism. Those aspirations now appear largely to have receded, argue Hannah Muzee and Femi Mimiko, as both regimes have drifted into personalised politics and illiberal practices

April 4, 2022

🌊 Orbán is returned to power in Hungary

Kinga Korányi

Viktor Orbán has just emerged victorious in the Hungarian national election of 3 April, despite his pro-Russian stance and friendship with Vladimir Putin, which had been expected to tarnish his party Fidesz’s popularity. Kinga Koranyi argues that Fidesz managed to turn its response to the war in Ukraine into a successful campaign tool

March 21, 2022

🌊 Change is possible in Hungary

Andrew Richard Ryder

Since 2010, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has carried through measures that have undermined the rule of law, with no prospect for changing this trajectory. However, argues Andrew Richard Ryder, current events present opportunities for a return to democratic values in Hungary

March 4, 2022

🌊 Autocratisation: the key to capturing today's democratic difficulties

João Alípio Correa

The concept of 'illiberal democracy' is well-founded, but João Alípio Correa argues that it fails to convey what is happening in regimes described as such. To gain a more incisive understanding of the current deterioration in democratic regimes, he proposes the umbrella definition 'autocratisation'

February 22, 2022

🌊 The authoritarian consolidation attempt in Turkey

Görkem Altınörs

Görkem Altınörs and Ümit Akçay analyse the political economy of regime change in Turkey. The AKP's 'authoritarian fix' strategy was a response to multiple crises in the 2010s. Now, it has led to an attempt at authoritarian consolidation

February 9, 2022

🌊 Undermining democracy in Southeast Europe

Damir Kapidžić

Illiberal politics are a way to understand the process by which ruling elites (mis)use democratic institutions of the state to create an electoral advantage for themselves with the aim to remain in power indefinitely. With a focus on Southeast Europe, Damir Kapidžić explains the concept's roots in institutional legacies of past regimes

October 20, 2021

🌊 Civil society organisations under pressure in the world’s biggest democracy

Soumi Banerjee

Soumi Banerjee and Rishi Jha argue that the rising wave of illiberalism is causing a shift in state-civil society relationships around the world. In contemporary India, the government often targets NGOs, resulting in the partial or complete seizure of operations

March 5, 2024

🌈 Women’s roles in anti-authoritarian resistance

Saskia Brechenmacher

Saskia Brechenmacher, Erin Jones, and Özge Zihnioğlu write that gender is critical to understanding popular resistance against democratic erosion and autocratic hardening around the world

January 4, 2024

🔮 Science-related populism and populist electoral performance

Fabio Bordignon

Fabio Bordignon explores the relationship between pseudoscientific beliefs and support for populist parties. This link, he argues, changes according to the political trajectories of populist actors and their paths toward institutions

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