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Articles for Democratic Backsliding

Georgia protests: What’s behind them and what’s next?
3 weeks ago

Georgia protests: What’s behind them and what’s next?

Al Jazeera  

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have clashed with riot police in Georgia over the past five nights in protests against the governing Georgian Dream party’s decision to suspend talks aimed at joining the European Union until 2028. It exemplifies the ruling Georgian Dream party’s pattern of democratic backsliding, state capture, rigging elections and attempts to undermine Georgia’s European aspirations.” How …

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Explained: What’s behind the massive protests in Georgia?
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Explained: What’s behind the massive protests in Georgia?

Firstpost  

For four nights, Georgia has been rocked by protests against the ruling party’s decision to freeze the European Union accession talks until 2028. With over 100 police officers injured and dozens of protesters hospitalised, tensions are escalating For four consecutive nights, the streets of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, and other cities have been gripped by protests sparked by the government’s decision …

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Popular imagination? 大众想象
1 year ago

Popular imagination? 大众想象

China Daily  

Reader question: Please explain “popular imagination”, as in this sentence: The black hole has entered the popular imagination as an object too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its gravitational pull. The bold change was originally suggested by Sarah Shapiro, a Foggy Bottom resident and local activist, who wanted residents to “confront the rest of the nation with …

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Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
1 year, 3 months ago

Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure

The Economist  

Graphic detail | Measure for measure Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure Our analysis highlights two measures of governance that have diverged in recent years Global democracy indices, 2008=100 102 Objective indicators, Little & Meng, 2023 100 The Economist indices State capacity 98 96 EIU ↓ Less democratic Political liberalism Electoral democracy, V-Dem 94 …

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If Sheikh Hasina loses, Bangladesh at risk of prolonged political and economic instability
1 year, 4 months ago

If Sheikh Hasina loses, Bangladesh at risk of prolonged political and economic instability

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 20, 2023 09:34 IST - 11 MINS READ Pressure is mounting on India to bail Bangladesh out from a US-imposed political crisis that is shrinking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s space to manoeuvre and encouraging political opponents, particularly Islamist fundamentalist outfits, to put her in a corner in the run-up to the country’s parliamentary election scheduled for January …

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Off-centre | Overdoing India’s ‘backsliding democracy’ narrative
1 year, 4 months ago

Off-centre | Overdoing India’s ‘backsliding democracy’ narrative

Firstpost  

Dr Sabyasachi Das is looking for ‘democratic backsliding’, ‘electoral manipulation’, and ‘targeted electoral discrimination’ against Muslims in his datasets. That he doesn’t find any of these in significant measure is the fundamental conclusion of his research A meaningful Indian response to Dr Sabyasachi Das’ paper on “Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy” would find it practically impossible to separate …

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Battle for 2024: Why Indian Democracy Needs A Firewall Against Foreign Influence - News18
1 year, 4 months ago

Battle for 2024: Why Indian Democracy Needs A Firewall Against Foreign Influence - News18

News 18  

With the newly formed Opposition alliance bringing a no-confidence motion during the ongoing session of Parliament, the campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections seems to have begun almost nine months in advance. Thus, we have this bizarre sequence of events where action against Chinese propaganda by the Indian State is cited to downgrade Indian democracy and to lower the …

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Celebrations unlikely to last long in Macky Sall’s Senegal
2 years, 10 months ago

Celebrations unlikely to last long in Macky Sall’s Senegal

Al Jazeera  

Senegal erupted into celebration on Sunday night after its football team defeated Egypt and won the Africa Cup of Nations. The United States-based research institute said the country’s status declined because “the 2019 presidential election was marred by the exclusion of two major opposition figures who had been convicted in politically fraught corruption cases”. In 2012, when incumbent President Abdoulaye …

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