Often when politicians take actions to undermine democracy, they loudly proclaim that their actions are necessary to “save democracy.” It reminds me of the Vietnam-era line about destroying a village ...

There is a growing strain of illiberalism both within the Republican Party and among Republican voters. But what does that illiberalism actually look like among elected members in Congress?

Researchers have carried out a new comprehensive assessment on how different people around the world understand the concept of ‘democracy.’ The results demonstrate that -overwhelmingly- people in ...

If you're an American, you probably assume there's only one kind of democracy, the kind that you grew up with. That would be the democracy where citizens govern themselves through elected ...

A Quinnipiac University poll conducted in late August found that 67 percent of U.S. adults think “the nation’s democracy is in danger of collapse.” That is what President Biden said in Philadelphia, ...

Public dissatisfaction with democracy continues to outweigh satisfaction across 12 high-income countries that Pew Research Center has surveyed consistently since 2017. Across that set of countries – ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. On Tuesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva summoned eleven South ...