| ID | 136631 |
| Title Proper | Mimicking democracy to prolong autocracies |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Frantz, Erica ; Kendall-Taylor, Andrea |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Democracy has suffered eight straight years of global decline. This was the finding Freedom House issued in its 2014 report examining the state of global political rights and civil liberties.1 This downward slide in political freedom has been the longest continuous decline in political rights and civil liberties since the watch-dog organization began measuring these trends over 40 years ago.
Some of this backsliding has occurred in democratic countries like Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban publicly declared the end of liberal democracy as he continued to undermine the media, the judiciary, and other key institutional checks on executive power following his election in 2010. Or in Turkey where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismantled checks on his power, censured opponents, and limited critical media, particularly in the last two years. However, a good deal of the deterioration globally has occurred within the subset of states we would consider to be non-democracies. From Egypt to Russia to Venezuela to Thailand, autocratic incumbents are expanding their control over the levers of power. |
| `In' analytical Note | Washington Quarterly Vol.37, No.4; Win.2015: p.71-84 |
| Journal Source | Washington Quarterly Vol: 37 No 4 |
| Standard Number | Democracy |