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Tag: Democracy (Theory and Philosophy)

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A Rush to the Street as Protesters Worldwide See Democracies Backsliding

June 26, 2019Amanda Taub and Max FisherComments Off on A Rush to the Street as Protesters Worldwide See Democracies Backsliding

Prague. Hong Kong. Algeria. Citizens find more to object to just as they feel increasingly entitled to object.

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The Interpreter: Brexit Mess Reflects Democracy’s New Era of Tear-It-All-Down

March 29, 2019March 30, 2019MAX FISHERComments Off on The Interpreter: Brexit Mess Reflects Democracy’s New Era of Tear-It-All-Down

Britain’s breakdown represents a much wider phenomenon. Across Western democracies, politics are increasingly defined by opposition — to everything.

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The Interpreter: Algeria Tests Path Toward Democracy in an Era of Authoritarianism

March 13, 2019MAX FISHERComments Off on The Interpreter: Algeria Tests Path Toward Democracy in an Era of Authoritarianism

Flickers of progress highlight how much the world has changed in recent years, and how uncertain democracy’s global future remains.

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The Interpreter: When More Democracy Isn’t More Democratic

January 21, 2019MAX FISHER and AMANDA TAUBComments Off on The Interpreter: When More Democracy Isn’t More Democratic

The checks democratic systems impose on popular will are no accident. But the discontent they can lead to offers fertile ground to populists.

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The Interpreter: When Crises Rally a Nation, and When They Don’t

January 15, 2019MAX FISHER and AMANDA TAUBComments Off on The Interpreter: When Crises Rally a Nation, and When They Don’t

Presidents Trump and Emmanuel Macron are not the first to capitalize on — or manufacture — a crisis to advance their agenda. And they are not the first to stumble.

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On the Surface, Hungary Is a Democracy. But What Lies Underneath?

December 25, 2018December 25, 2018PATRICK KINGSLEYComments Off on On the Surface, Hungary Is a Democracy. But What Lies Underneath?

Hungary has the trappings of a 21st-century European democracy, but uses its devices to exert the same kind of control as the autocracies of the Cold War.

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A Member of Britain’s Parliament Seized the Ceremonial Mace, and Confusion Reigned

December 10, 2018December 11, 2018ALAN YUHASComments Off on A Member of Britain’s Parliament Seized the Ceremonial Mace, and Confusion Reigned

The act of protest by a member of the House of Commons drew attention to the symbolic 17th-century object, and to the chaotic state of British politics.

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