In the past two decades, a slide from democracy toward autocracy has been a consistent global theme. Countries in most regions of the world have witnessed a systematic dismantling of democratic ...

The number of autocracies—where one top leader holds unconstrained authority—has now surpassed the various forms of world democracies in 2024.

The inevitable decline The decline of American democracy is not a sudden crisis, but the inevitable result of long-standing structural problems. First, American democracy is systematically flawed.