Tag: Western democracy

• Thursday, March 19th 2026 - 12:57 UTC

  Western Democracies backsliding, with U.S. decline “unprecedented”

  

  Democratic backsliding is now happening in well-established democracies. Democracy in the USA is deteriorating at unprecedented speed, and media and journalists are increasingly targeted across the world. This, and more, is reported in the latest Democracy Report from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg.

• Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 07:44 UTC

  The model of Western democracy is broken: unemployment stats questioned

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - If the model is broken, should you try to fix it, or scrap it and get a new one? In questions of technology, increasingly the answer is: scrap it. Computer repair shops are dying out: if your laptop doesn't work, just buy a new one. What applies to consumer technology, however, does not necessarily apply to politics.