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The Journal of Democracy: The smartest analysis on democracy and authoritarianism around the world. Reposts ≠ Endorsement. https://linkin.bio/jodemocracy

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 15h

Read "China’s AI-Powered Surveillance State" by Valentin Weber:

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 15h

Read "Why Bitcoin Is Freedom Money" by Alex Gladstein:

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Read "AI’s Real Dangers for Democracy" by Dean Jackson and Samuel C. Woolley:

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 17h

Read "The Threat to Latin American Term Limits" by Benjamin N. Gedan and Elias French:

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 18h

Read "Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived" by Ibrahima Fall and Catherine Lena Kelly:

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 18h

Read "Is Costa Rica’s Democracy Failing?" by Forrest D. Colburn and Andrea M. Prado:

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations to María Corina Machado on winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democracy in Venezuela.

"We are all necessary, wherever we are...united we are invincible." —María Corina Machado, August 2024 speech

Read her full speech here:
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 1d

Read "Why Bolivia's MAS Collapsed" by Santiago Anria:

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Read "How Oppositions Turn Authoritarian" by Donghyun Danny Choi and Fiona Shen-Bayh:

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 1d

Read "What Political Scientists Owe Democracy" by Hanna Lerner, Osnat Akirav, Liron Lavi, Yael Shomer, and Gayil Talshir:

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 1d

Read "Cuba's Mafia State" by Juan Antonio Blanco: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Read "What Democracy Does...And Does Not Do" by Maya Tudor: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 1d

Fleeing the country is no longer enough to keep activists safe from authoritarian repression.

Learn why we're living in the golden era of transnational repression:

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 1d

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

AI threatens to take educated debate and dialogue out of the political equation. Polarization will only become worse, and political bases more hostile toward one another.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

The CCP must decide whether to entrust security decisions to opaque AI systems, which may become difficult to control, or rely on human judgement, where error is inherent.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

Why are term limits important?

Fragile democracies rely on term limits to keep would-be authoritarians from cementing their power and eroding democratic norms over an extended period of time.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

Will Costa Ricans' faith in democracy be enough to counteract the appeal of populism?

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

When checks and balances in Senegal came under threat, the judiciary and civil society pushed back.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

Why is Bitcoin "freedom money"?

Bitcoin is harder to trace than other currencies, and authoritarians can't easily freeze Bitcoin wallets the way they can with traditional bank accounts.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

Opposition parties aren't always the drivers of democratic renewal that citizens want them to be.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

Without institutionalizing mechanisms for succession or intraparty pluralism, Bolivia's MAS collapsed.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

Water supplies fail. Food shortages force adults to skip meals to feed the young and elderly. Multiple generations live packed together in a single house and endure hot summer nights without enough power to run a fan.

Daily life in Cuba is a nightmare.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

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