Democracy is in trouble, and the headwinds it faces keep growing stronger. So how can democracy regain its momentum? Larry Diamond, one of the foremost experts on democracy, argues that there are three keys we must follow if we want to win the fight for freedom.
Plus:?Arthur Brooks on how to save America from its crisis in civic virtues; what Viktor Orbán’s path to autocratic power can teach us; why young Europeans are flocking to far-right parties; and a special package on the future of liberalism.
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- To prove democracy’s superiority and win the battle against autocracy, writes Larry Diamond, we must harness the essential elements of Power, Performance, and Legitimacy
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- The problem with democracy today is not capitalism, argues
Arthur Brooks, but a decline in public honesty and civility.
- Indonesia’s president-elect is a former general with little respect for democratic institutions. Dan Slater warns
that the country’s democracy could soon be fighting for its life.
- Viktor Orbán derailed Hungary’s democracy. Understanding how he did it, explain
Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones, may help us spot other failing democracies before it’s too late.
- Far-right parties in Europe’s newer democracies have been courting younger voters, whose shifting values, Laura Jakli demonstrates
, make them a ripe target.
- The battle over rights for sexual minorities has divided countries into opposing camps. Gino Pauselli and María-José Urzúa write
that autocrats are lashing out with one aim: countering the liberal international order.
Tests to African Democracy
- Africa’s recent putsches have more to do with democracy’s failure to deliver, Ken Opalo writes
, than any fondness for military rule.
- Violence need not be lethal to threaten democracy. Michael Wahman shows
how low-scale violence has been used to manipulate elections.
- Malawi is a “hard place” for democracy. Yet, as Kim Yi Dionne explains
, it has avoided the pitfalls that have doomed other countries like it.
Symposium: Redefining Liberalism
- Liberal societies, Bryan Garsten writes
, are those that offer refuge from the very people they empower.
- Liberalism’s power allows it to serve as refuge while also taming the demons of liberal society, argues
Nadia Urbinati.
- The liberal emphasis on unhindered mobility comes with costs, particularly for those unable to leave, cautions
William Galston.
- It is liberal societies’ tolerance of immoral behavior, Jason Brennan contends, that protects us from our leaders and from ourselves.
- The liberal belief in the possibility of “escape,” Patrick J. Deneen writes
, leads to detachment from any community — an exodus without refuge.
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