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Russia and other autocracies are on the offensive, and the consequences are being felt everywhere.</p> <p class="font--serif font--large">The <em><a title="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=f3b92d935b&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1">Journal of Democracy</a> </em>strives to keep you up to date on the latest developments in global democracy and autocracy. Here are our ten most-read essays over the past month.</p> <hr /> <blockquote class="blockquote blockquote--highlight"> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/815944" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=f6da4c3099&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">The Rise of Political Violence in the United States</a></strong><br /> In a deeply polarized United States, ordinary people now consume and espouse once-radical ideas and are primed to commit violence.<br /> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/rachel-kleinfeld/"><em>Rachel Kleinfeld</em></a></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/900438" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=6e978be47d&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">Why India’s Democracy Is Dying</a></strong><br /> Under Narendra Modi, India is maintaining the trappings of democracy while it increasingly harasses the opposition, attacks minorities, and stifles dissent. It can still reverse course, but the damage is mounting.<br /> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/maya-tudor/"><em>Maya Tudor</em></a></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/852742" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=ab3ee6c780&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4">What Putin Fears Most</a> </strong><br /> Forget his excuses. Russia’s autocrat doesn’t worry about NATO. What terrifies him is the prospect of a flourishing Ukrainian democracy.<br /> <em><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/robert-person/">Robert Person</a> and <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/michael-mcfaul/">Michael McFaul</a></em></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/860244" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=e8f86e2093&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5">How Viktor Orbán Wins</a></strong><br /> The case of Hungary shows how autocrats can rig elections legally, using legislative majorities to change the law and neutralize the opposition at every turn, no matter what strategy they adopt.<br /> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/kim-lane-scheppele/"><em>Kim Lane Scheppele</em></a></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/907693" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=a1704fe3ea&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6">How AI Threatens Democracy</a> </strong><br /> Generative AI can flood the media, internet, and even personal correspondence with misinformation—sowing confusion for voters and government officials alike. If we fail to act, mounting mistrust will polarize our societies and tear at our institutions.<br /> <em><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/sarah-kreps/">Sarah Kreps</a> and <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/doug-kriner/">Doug Kriner</a></em></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/930425" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=6b1da62b0d&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7">Misunderstanding Democratic Backsliding</a></strong><br /> If democracies did a better job “delivering” for their citizens, so the thinking goes, people would not be so ready to embrace antidemocratic alternatives. Not so. This conventional wisdom about democratic backsliding is seldom true and often not accurate at all.<br /> <em><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/thomas-carothers/">Thomas Carothers</a> and <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/brendan-hartnett/">Brendan Hartnett</a></em></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/607612" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=796d13b8d5&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="8">On Democratic Backsliding</a></strong><br /> Old-fashioned military coups and blatant election-day fraud are becoming mercifully rarer these days, but other, subtler forms of democratic regression are a growing problem that demands more attention.<br /> <a href="https://journalofdemocracy.org/authors/nancy-bermeo/"><em>Nancy Bermeo</em></a></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/16979" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=d5b2076b22&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="9">Democracy as a Universal Value</a></strong><br /> The recognition of democracy as a universally relevant system is a major revolution in thinking, and one of the main contributions of the twentieth century. While not yet universally practiced, democracy is now being taken as generally right.<br /> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/amartya-kumar-sen/"><em>Amartya Kumar Sen</em></a></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/930423" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=6bc78e3d75&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="10">Who Decides What Is Democratic</a></strong><br /> The “crisis” of democracy is a crisis of representation. New parties, some of which are populist in troublingly illiberal ways, are arising from this moment. The danger that they pose is not that they are antidemocratic, but that they are antiliberal.<br /> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/adam-przeworski/"><em>Adam Przeworski</em></a></p> <p class="font--serif font--large"><strong><a title="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/705713" href="https://journalofdemocracy.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7085061aa49a2c74f66df0d20&id=3dcf4123d5&e=1f07592c84" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="11">Why National Identity Matters</a></strong><br /> From enhancing physical security to encouraging mutual trust, an inclusive sense of national identity continues to be crucial to the flourishing of modern states.<br /> <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/francis-fukuyama/"><em>Francis Fukuyama</em></a></p> </blockquote> <hr /> <p class="font--serif font--medium">Subscribe <a href="https://mailchi.mp/ned/odi9mel23g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> to have curated collections like this one and other 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