Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has become an icon for the global conservative movement that Donald Trump has attached ...

People around the world still look to the United States as a model and champion of good government. As President Donald Trump ...

An illiberal version of “democracy” then emerges, which – in the name of the people – attacks the checks and balances that are crucial to liberal democracy. That seems to be what is ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an unprecedented effort to roll back democracy and the ...

The advice to surrender to the occupying Russian forces instead of resisting came as no surprise, considering the ...

Democratic progress made since the start of the Reform period in 1998 has stagnated or backslid as a result of the strong and ...

When a democracy becomes so corrupted into becoming illiberal, citizens often become so concomitantly frustrated with the system that they long for ‘liberation’ from it. This is where ...

While hard-right threats to liberal democracy are often the focus of Europe’s attention ... Similar protests are gathering steam in Slovakia, where crowds have turned out to denounce the illiberal ...

In this sense, liberal democracy becomes ‘illiberal democracy’ in which only the form but not the substance of it is observed. Unfortunately in many parts of Africa, liberal democracy has ...