Ordinary citizens can serve as a critical defence against democratic backsliding. But
beneath the surface, citizens' commitment to democracy is sometimes fragile, with crises …

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments across the globe implemented
severe restrictions of civic freedoms to contain the spread of the virus. The global health …

Crisis management during the pandemic stimulated a bulk of analyses and debates on how
states and societies coped with this challenge. In many countries, authority migrated …

Political entrepreneurs put liberal democracy under pressure by fueling concerns and
exploiting citizens' fragile commitment to this system of government. As difficult trade-offs are …

Many important questions in political science require the use of" hard-coded" data or
information that has been systematically ordered and quantified by a human being from …

This chapter analyzes recent challenges, trends, and developments in Canadian efforts to
safeguard democracy in the Americas. While still largely rhetorical, Canadian foreign policy …

Abstract Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly being used in educational
contexts, withmostly unsubstantiated claims that it will personalise learning and save …

This research was designed in response to the worrying global trends of democratic decline,
and the similarly worrying scholarly disinterest in state criminality which occurs in democratic …

Since the liberation struggle brought independence in 1980, government strategies of
authoritarian control have been harsh and effective, with democracy scores in Zimbabwe …

The response to Covid‐19 in both democratic countries (adopting tactics of totalitarian
nations) and autocracies (ignoring the scope of the problem) posed a grave threat to life and …