Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it appears.In October, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan won a highly dubious 98% of the presidential vote, perpetuating ...

Xi Jinping shakes hands with Chinese construction workers at a Belt and Road Initiative site in Trinidad and Tobago in June 2023. Frederic Dubray/AFP via Getty Images China currently faces daunting ...

For all of the Biden administration’s rhetoric about democracies versus autocracies being the defining challenge of our times, if democracies are in trouble, autocracies may be the least of their ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Pierre Bienaimé: President-elect Donald Trump and the CEO of SoftBank announced a ...

Russia’s successful interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election may inspire other countries to do the same. These other countries don’t look threatening. They look like democracies. But ...

Joe Biden correctly argues that the struggle between democracy and autocracy is the defining conflict of our time. So which system performs better under stress? For the last several years the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yonatan Morse, University of Connecticut (THE CONVERSATION) Autocratic leaders in ...

Yonatan Morse does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...