- Over 11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office, which is an exceedingly high rate. They have a strong track record of winning elections, and lean to the right ideologically. They are much more likely to enter politics in autocracies than in democracies. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/billionaire-politicians-a-global-perspective/1AD0E0C33FE43165B14DD981533E00DD 291 comments science
- Hungary is no longer a full democracy but an 'electoral autocracy,' MEPs declare in new report https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/09/15/hungary-is-no-longer-a-full-democracy-but-an-electoral-autocracy-meps-declare-in-new-repor 13 comments worldnews
- Hungary is no longer a full democracy but an 'electoral autocracy,' MEPs declare in new report https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/09/15/hungary-is-no-longer-a-full-democracy-but-an-electoral-autocracy-meps-declare-in-new-repor 7 comments europes
- ‘US democracy will not survive for long’: how January 6 hearings plot a roadmap to autocracy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/23/january-6-hearings-us-democracy-roadmap-autocracy 48 comments politics
- How to Make Biden’s Free World Strategy Work: It’s Not as Simple as Pitting Democracy Against Autocracy https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2022-05-24/how-make-bidens-free-world-strategy-work?tum_source=reddit_posts 155 comments geopolitics
- Putin’s European allies-The fight between democracy and autocracy is happening not only in Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/briefing/putin-allies-hungary-serbia.html 12 comments worldnews
- How Democracy Can Defeat Autocracy https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/13/how-democracy-can-defeat-autocracy/ 3 comments politics
- Electoral autocracy: The downgrading of India's democracy https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944 7 comments worldnews
- 'Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy - Really Happening in india https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944 3 comments worldnews
- 'Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944 5 comments worldnews
- 'Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944 4 comments worldnews
- 'Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944 14 comments india
- India Is No Longer a Democracy but an 'Electoral Autocracy': Swedish Institute https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/research-organisation-declares-india-as-an-electoral-autocracy/cid/1809175 15 comments worldnews
- Experts warn democracies facing autocracy: Protect your institutions https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/experts-warn-democracies-facing-autocracy-protect-your-institutions-78656581780 32 comments politics
- A win for democracy in Venezuela would be hugely significant for a world gripped by rising autocracy https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/win-for-democracy-in-venezuela-would-have-massive-significance.html 3 comments worldnews
- The Autocracy App. Review of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/facebook-autocracy-app/ 3 comments books
- The global move from democracy to autocracy https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/24/opinions/trump-end-to-democracy-opinion-andelman/index.html 20 comments politics
- The global move from democracy to autocracy https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/24/opinions/trump-end-to-democracy-opinion-andelman/index.html 282 comments politics
- Why does India, the world’s largest democracy, love the idea of dictatorship? 55% of Indians support autocracy while 53% think military rule is good https://scroll.in/article/854479/why-does-india-the-worlds-largest-democracy-love-the-idea-of-dictatorship 4 comments india
- Trump Isn’t Sure If Democracy Is Better Than Autocracy http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/13/trump-isnt-sure-if-democracy-is-better-than-autocracy/ 16 comments politics
- Who’ll want artificially intelligent weapons? ISIS, democracies, or autocracies? http://thebulletin.org/who%E2%80%99ll-want-artificially-intelligent-weapons-isis-democracies-or-autocracies9692?platform=hootsuite 6 comments artificial
- Why libertarians apologize for autocracy - The experience of every modern democratic nation-state proves that libertarianism is incompatible with democracy http://politics.salon.com/2011/08/30/lind_libertariansim/ 7 comments politics
- Why libertarians apologize for autocracy - The experience of every modern democratic nation-state proves that libertarianism is incompatible with democracy http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/30/lind_libertariansim 8 comments politics
- Is Democracy the End of History? An Open Letter to Salon's Michael Lind on Libertarianism and Autocracy http://athousandnations.com/2011/08/31/is-democracy-the-end-of-history-an-open-letter-to-michael-lind/ 2 comments politics
- Nancy Pelosi in Armenia: Today, from the US to Ukraine to Taiwan to Armenia, the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy — and we must, again, choose democracy. https://www.rferl.org/armenia-pelosi-visit-azerbaijan/32038824.html 585 comments europe
- Biden said America's survival depends on proving to China that democracy can outpace autocracy https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-said-china-betting-democracy-cannot-keep-up-with-autocracy-2021-4?utm_source=reddit.com 33 comments worldnews
- Biden said America's survival depends on proving to China that democracy can outpace autocracy https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-said-china-betting-democracy-cannot-keep-up-with-autocracy-2021-4 21 comments politics
- Modi’s Slide Toward Autocracy | Through his wildly successful promotion of Hindutva ideology, Modi is poised to remake India into a Russian-style “managed democracy”—one retaining all the trappings of democracy while operating as a de facto autocracy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/13/modi-india-hindutva-hindu-nationalism-autocracy/ 6 comments worldnews
- AI Surveillance More Common in Liberal Democracies Than Autocracies, Claims New Research https://news.beincrypto.com/2019/09/20/ai-surveillance-more-common-in-liberal-democracies-than-autocracies-claims-new-research/?utm_campaign=ai&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit&utm_content=jm 4 comments netsec
- What happened Monday night at the Democratic caucuses was a debacle, period. Democracy, particularly at the local party level, can be slow, messy and obscure. But the refusal to undergo scrutiny or allow for an appeal reeks of autocracy. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/caucus/2016/02/03/editorial-something-smells-democratic-party/79777580/ 44 comments politics
- Chavez cracks down on dissenting voices. This is how democracy turns into autocracy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/02/venezuela-chavez-radio-station-licences 9 comments worldnews
- 'Which Side Are You On?': Poor People's Campaign Pressures US Senate on Democracy and Justice | "Democracy versus autocracy is the battle of our time," said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/12/which-side-are-you-poor-peoples-campaign-pressures-us-senate-democracy-and-justice 5 comments politics
- The Emerging Biden Doctrine: Democracy, Autocracy, and the Defining Clash of Our Time https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-06-29/emerging-biden-doctrine 13 comments geopolitics
- The Emerging Biden Doctrine: Democracy, Autocracy, and the Defining Clash of Our Time https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-06-29/emerging-biden-doctrine 5 comments politics
- The Thing That Determines a Country’s Resistance to the Coronavirus | The major dividing line in effective crisis response will not place autocracies on one side and democracies on the other. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/thing-determines-how-well-countries-respond-coronavirus/609025/ 4 comments politics
- An Empirical Analysis of Chinese versus US Arms Transfers to Autocrats and Violators of Human Rights, 1989-2006: "China relative to the United States transfers greater amounts of arms to democracies rather than autocracies, whereas the United States seems to prefer more autocratic regimes" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/isqu.12028/abstract 4 comments politics
- An Empirical Analysis of Chinese versus US Arms Transfers to Autocrats and Violators of Human Rights, 1989-2006: "China relative to the United States transfers greater amounts of arms to democracies rather than autocracies, whereas the United States seems to prefer more autocratic regimes" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/isqu.12028/abstract 3 comments science
- European Parliament slams Hungary as an 'electoral autocracy' | The European Parliament has called on the European Commission to take urgent action, saying that Hungary could "no longer be considered a democracy." https://www.dw.com/en/european-parliament-slams-hungary-as-an-electoral-autocracy/a-63133148 56 comments worldnews
- If American Democracy Dies, Trump’s Republicans Won’t Mourn It — Where the GOP once turned against Nixon for comparatively minor crimes, it now mostly cheers Trump or looks the other way as he leads the party and the country down the path of autocracy. https://abovethelaw.com/2020/09/if-american-democracy-dies-trumps-republicans-wont-mourn-it/ 130 comments politics
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the danger of strongmen leaders and how to rein them in | Many countries face autocracy, but there are ways to resist and preserve democracy, writes a historian https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2021/07/02/ruth-ben-ghiat-on-the-danger-of-strongmen-leaders-and-how-to-rein-them-in 3 comments politics