Colleague ActivitiesThe Brain on Authoritarianism
Better understanding the brain's response to fear, toxic othering, and threats to social identity will help pro-democracy organizers to confront the authoritarian playbook.
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Illiberal Authoritarian Systems
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Colleague Activities
The Brain on Authoritarianism
Better understanding the brain's response to fear, toxic othering, and threats to social identity will help pro-democracy organizers to confront the authoritarian playbook.
Colleague Activities
The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule
Around the world, the enemies of liberal democracy---a form of self-government in which human rights are recognized and every individual is entitled to equal treatment under law---are accelerating their attacks.
Colleague Activities
Defending Liberal Democracy from the Slide Toward Authoritarianism
Keynote Speech to the European Democracy Conference 2017
News and Opinion
The Age of the Elected Despot Is Here
An explanation of how electoral processes can be manipulated by authoritarian wannabes (with lots of must-learn lessons).
News and Opinion
The Global Struggle: Democracies vs. Dictatorships
Thought-provoking reflections on the intensifying conflict between democratic and authoritarian societies -- a conflict that may soon frame most everything else.
News and Opinion
We've Just Had a Glimpse of the World to Come
An essay exploring the possibility that the recent meeting of the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, and China might offer a preview of what a much more authoritarian world order might look like.
News and Opinion
If and when you live in a dictatorship, how will you know?
As we continue to agonize over whether or not we are becoming an authoritarian society, the timely essay that helps us understand what dictatorship really looks like.
News and Opinion
The authoritarian takeover attempt is here
An especially well-documented explanation of why so many people are so deeply alarmed by the way in which Kilmar Abrego Garcia was imprisoned in El Salvador.