A recent New Yorker piece about the shadowland between democracy and autocracy taught me a new word — “anocracy” — and added to my worries about Donald Trump and his semi-criminal gang who tried to ...

Anocracy is when we have elements of democracy, but most decisions are no longer decided by the citizens. Put simply: Columbus City Hall can do whatever it wants and it doesn’t matter what you think.

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 ...

Historians and political scientists now identify the United States as exhibiting the very warning signs it once monitored in ...

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 ...

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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".