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United States
What Is Illiberal Democracy?
February 20, 2025Senem Aydin-Düzgit, Mark Frazier, Jeffrey C. Isaac, Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Democracy
How Democracies Transform, Fast and Slow
June 5, 2023Ferenc Laczó
Ukraine
Liberalism Needs Nationalism
June 21, 2022Sophie Boulter
COVID-19
Habermas on the Legitimacy of Lockdown
February 23, 2022Peter J. Verovšek
A Scholar for Our Times
July 7, 2021Jeffrey C. Isaac
Politics
John Stuart Mill and the Successful Failure of Liberalism
February 4, 2021Chris Barker
Photograph of a crowd of BHP supporters during the 2024 Indian elections
India
The World’s “Largest Democracy”?
May 30, 2024Udeepta Chakravarty
Democracy
Bloodless Democracy?
April 11, 2023James Miller
Politics
The Administrative State, Its Democratic Deficits, and How to Fix Them in Comparative Historical Perspective
May 8, 2025Mark Frazier, James Miller, Kim Lane Scheppele, Julia Sonnevend
Aerial view of the Gazela Bridge, which connects old and new Belgrade, taken over by protesters. Photo by Arocha.
Politics
Serbia’s Popular Protest Movement and Why It Matters
April 25, 2025Jorge González Arocha
Democracy
Is Europe’s Democracy in Crisis?
April 10, 2023Filip Kostelka
IDF soldiers putting on tefillin and tallit for morning prayer before entering Gaza
Israel/Palestine
The Self-Orientalization of Israeli Politics
February 19, 2025Assaf David, Arie Dubnov

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