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https://www.pilotonline.com/2026/04/24/column-hungarys-lessons-for-democracies-under-fire/
Column: Hungary’s lessons for democracies under fire – The Virginian-Pilot
Apr 24, 2026 - As long as elections are still happening, ousting a wannabe dictator is possible, Chicago Tribune columnist Elizabeth Shackelford writes.
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https://www.corpgov.net/
CorpGov.net : Accountable Companies, Stronger Markets, Healthier Democracies
Accountable Companies, Stronger Markets, Healthier Democracies
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https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/how-data-collection-threatens-a-free-society
Both state and commercial mass surveillance risk transforming free democracies into surveillance...
Authoritarian states use mass surveillance to control the population. Even in democratic countries, we see direct consequences of collecting absurd amounts of...
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https://allianceofdemocracies.org/supporters
Alliance of Democracies
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-western-wars-turned-liberal-democracies-police-states
How western wars turned liberal democracies into police states | Middle East Eye
Jan 29, 2026 - From post-9/11 surveillance laws to the repression of Gaza solidarity, state powers once justified as tools of foreign war are now directed inward at citizens
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https://citap.unc.edu/events/threats-to-democracies/
Threats to Democracies - The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) | The...
Oct 24, 2024 - This event brings together renowned experts to discuss the critical challenges to democracies in the U.S. and Europe, with a particular focus on media,...
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Donate to MIRA. Feminisms and Democracies!
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/03/minneapolis-ice-minnesota-immigration-protest-democracy/
Minneapolis Anti-ICE Protests: Lessons From Global Democracies
Feb 6, 2026 - Three factors shape when protests restrain democratic erosion—and when they don’t.
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https://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@tc.umn.edu/msg00465.html
[DW] Democracies Online Newswire - Recommend to a Friend
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https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-11-11/progressives-should-use-cop30-to-show-democracies-can-deliver-prosperity-and-save-the-planet.html
Progressives should use COP30 to show democracies can deliver prosperity and save the planet |...
Nov 11, 2025 - This year’s summit is being held in a country that has defied both authoritarianism and environmental collapse, a reminder that democracy triumphs where...
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https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2025/11/four-ways-ai-is-being-used-to-strengthen-democracies-worldwide.html
Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide - Schneier on Security
Jan 22, 2026 - Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in...
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https://ideas.repec.org/a/eso/journl/v49y2018i3p241-258.html
Job Insecurity and Well-being in Rich Democracies
Downloadable! Precarious work (i.e., work that is insecure and uncertain, often low-paying, and in which the risks of work are shifted from employers and the...
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https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/36317/autocracies-outnumber-democracies-for-the-first-time-in-20-years-v-dem/
Autocracies outnumber democracies for the first time in 20 years: V-Dem
May 27, 2025 - The 2025 V-Dem report finds that 45 countries are affected by autocratization and 19 are in episodes of democratization.
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https://www.dailypress.com/2026/04/24/column-hungarys-lessons-for-democracies-under-fire/
Column: Hungary’s lessons for democracies under fire – Daily Press
Apr 24, 2026 - As long as elections are still happening, ousting a wannabe dictator is possible, Chicago Tribune columnist Elizabeth Shackelford writes.
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https://www.karlshochschule.de/de/unkategorisiert/fh-personal-future-democracies.html
FH-Personal / Future Democracies - Karlshochschule International University
Jul 15, 2025 - 2021 – 2027Gesamtförderung: 1,1 Mio. Euro
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https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/BESS/article/view/11418
Promoting democracies by democratising capitalism, with time limited equities and polycentric...
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https://www.leidenlawblog.nl/articles/a-tale-of-two-democracies
A Tale of Two Democracies - Leiden Law Blog
A revolt of the masses – or a revolt of the elites? Democracy has reason to worry about both.
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https://books.google.de/books?id=nffI9H4eD0gC&hl=de&source=gbs_citations_module_r&cad=6
Freedom Or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers ... - Michael Freeman...
Several democratic countries have used emergency powers to restrict or suspend individual liberties in order to fight terrorism more effectively. Emergency...
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https://allianceofdemocracies.org/
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https://www.longwarjournal.org/
FDD's Long War Journal - A Project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
A Project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
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https://kawalpemiluorg.com/election-coverage/what-is-the-primary-reason-that-elections-are-important-to-democracies/
What Is the Primary Reason That Elections Are Important to Democracies? Uncover the Truth -...
Aug 22, 2025 - Elections are like the ultimate reality show where the stakes are high and the drama is real. But unlike a typical TV series, this one shapes the future of...
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/23/south-korea-yoon-sentence/
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s Life Sentence Should Inspire Other Democracies
Feb 24, 2026 - The life sentence for Yoon Suk-yeol’s coup attempt should be a model for other states.
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https://www.semcoop.com/backsliders-why-leaders-undermine-their-own-democracies
Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
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https://community-democracies.org/values/organization/
About the Community of Democracies – CoD
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https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003297130/capitalisms-democracies-carlo-trigilia
Capitalisms and Democracies | Can Growth and Equality be Reconciled? |
This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with care the differences between these democracies
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/lynne-thompson-on-the-role-of-poetry-in-democracies/
Lynne Thompson on the Role of Poetry in Democracies | Los Angeles Review of Books
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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2020-08-03/council-democracies-can-save-multilateralism
A Council of Democracies Can Save Multilateralism | Foreign Affairs
Jun 12, 2025 - Boris Johnson's D10 proposal is the multilateral club the world needs: a group of capable, committed, and cohesive democracies that could muster political will...
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https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/democracies-tend-to-have-lower-levels-of-corruption
Democracies tend to have lower levels of corruption - Our World in Data
What difference does it make when people can choose their leaders? One area where the right to vote for political leaders may matter is corruption.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/03/what_can_the_world_s_smaller_democracies_teach_the_world_s_largest.html
What can the world's smaller democracies teach the world's largest? - American Thinker
The Danes understand the power of compromise.
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-electoral-democracies-age
Number of electoral democracies by age - Our World in Data
Classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) based on expert estimates by V-Dem. Electoral democracies are political systems that hold meaningful, free and fair,...
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https://collections.fes.de/publikationen/id/1970421
Publikationen der Stiftung / When citizens mobilize: urban protests in African democracies
Publikationen der Stiftung. When citizens mobilize: urban protests in African democracies : the cases of Senegal and Kenya / Melissa Li ; responsible...
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