The democracy-vs-autocracy framing has widened the divide between democratic countries — “us” — and Russia and its allies — ...

Autocracies often leverage international organizations to consolidate power. Several faculty from the Future of Democracy initiative have recently published studies in a special issue of the Review of ...

President Ronald Reagan laid the rhetorical foundations for the National Endowment for Democracy in a 1982 speech to the British Parliament. Support for its creation in Congress was bipartisan.

Democracy doesn’t collapse overnight—it erodes gradually. Political scientist Daniel Ziblatt outlines how business leaders ...

Congress created several organizations in 1980s to strengthen democratic institutions worldwide. Human rights activists say the freeze is a gift to authoritarians like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

The doctrine that organizations shouldn’t design interventions without involving the people impacted by them is foundational to international development. Yet when it comes to US democracy, ...

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is an intergovernmental organization that works to support and strengthen democratic institutions and processes around the world ...

The International Day of Democracy provides an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world. Democracy is as much a process as a goal, and only with the full participation of and support ...

President Ronald Reagan laid the rhetorical foundations for the National Endowment for Democracy in a 1982 speech to the British Parliament. Support for its creation in Congress was bipartisan.

This article is part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on Sept. 15, the International Day of Democracy, in which news organizations cover how democracy works and the threats it faces.

The Carter Center, a leading pro-democracy organization, says Venezuela’s election violated the country’s own laws and was undemocratic. By Frances Robles Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela The ...