How serious are the challenges to democracy today? One way to assess this is to examine historical experience, using the best global data available. Doing this, I find a picture that — although ...

But Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at Stanford University, says a closer look at the same data reveals a darker picture: When democracy’s backsliding began in 2006, more than ...

It's a gloomy picture for Indian democracy. With every passing day, India is heading towards an authoritarian system in which only one person will matter and the rest, including Parliament ...