In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, its disintegration was described by various political scientists as the triumph of liberal democracy. In 1992, the American scholar Francis Fukuyama declared ...

Barbara F. Walter, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Policy & Strategy at the University of California at San Diego, is the author of “How Civil Wars Start: And How ...

In its latest Democracy Index rating, the Economist Intelligence Unit describes the President Goodluck Jonathan administration as authoritarian. In another breath, the Washington Post, in a recent ...

The 1999 Constitution as amended is not a democratic document. It’s a decree written by feudalist military generals totally alien to what democracy is all about. The annual observance of Democracy Day ...

The United States has long prided itself as the world’s longest continuous democracy. There is, of course, the long-standing debate over whether the absence of universal suffrage in the country’s past ...

A protest for democracy is held in San Diego to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. Credit: REUTERS/Mike Blake A ...

An “anocracy” is a hybrid regime, which falls between autocracy and democracy. In its pure liberal form, democracy is a type of governance where rule of law and strong institutions make arbitrary ...

We’ve had, in recent times, at least three examples of prominent people saying that Nigeria, under President Bola Tinubu, has become a dictatorship. Most recently, Batten-Montague, Atiku Abubakar’s US ...

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor - known for his extremely vast vocabulary - on Sunday put out a tweet laced with sarcasm to target the BJP government at the centre by introducing a new word - "anocracy".