Archive for month Settembre, 2017

  • Settembre 15, 2017

    Democratic promises:...

    Africaโ€™s political landscape has changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War. Following the collapse of many military and single-party dictatorships, during the 1990s the vast majority of sub-Saharan countries embarked on institutional reforms aimed at introducing elections and multipartyism. These transitions were immediately welcomed as the beginning of...

  • Settembre 15, 2017

    Democratic dystopia:...

    On the evening of September 5, the newspaper editor Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken critic of Indiaโ€™s Hindu-nationalist government, was shot outside her home in the southern city of Bangalore. Her slaying was hardly exceptional: the Committee to Protect Journalists Impunity index ranks India at No 13, sharing space with countries...

  • Settembre 15, 2017

    On the...

    Democracy is under threat in what Americans like to think of as โ€œthe worldโ€™s oldest democracy.โ€ The most obvious threat is President Donald Trump. He uses rhetoric threatening rule of law, public order, and social solidarity; he calls into question the democratic credentials of his own election; his administration is...

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