In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, its disintegration was described by various political scientists as the triumph of liberal democracy. In 1992, the American scholar Francis Fukuyama declared ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. A recent New ...

Nearly half of Americans fear their country will erupt within the next decade. Ahead of the midterm elections this week, three experts analyse the depth of the crisis American political scientist and ...

The United States has long prided itself as the world’s longest continuous democracy. There is, of course, the long-standing debate over whether the absence of universal suffrage in the country’s past ...

Across America, whispers softly speak about whether there’s an undeclared civil war. Well, maybe yes, maybe no, but what are the signals? What about January 6 th hand-to-hand combat on the steps of ...

An “anocracy” is a hybrid regime, which falls between autocracy and democracy. In its pure liberal form, democracy is a type of governance where rule of law and strong institutions make arbitrary ...

In its latest Democracy Index rating, the Economist Intelligence Unit describes the President Goodluck Jonathan administration as authoritarian. In another breath, the Washington Post, in a recent ...

Nigeria has not collapsed into a full-blown dictatorship, but it is no longer functioning as a democracy either.

Barbara F. Walter, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Policy & Strategy at the University of California at San Diego, is the author of “How Civil Wars Start: And How ...

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor - known for his extremely vast vocabulary - on Sunday put out a tweet laced with sarcasm to target the BJP government at the centre by introducing a new word - "anocracy".