Democracy’s Future: More Liberal, Preliberal, or Postliberal?

Across East-Central Europe, the political center ground has long been characterized by the uneasy cohabitation of liberal and illiberal norms, but the latter have been gradually overpowering the former.

A review of The Quality of Democracy in Latin America, edited by Daniel H. Levine and José E. Molina.

Do democracy and good governance necessarily go hand-in-hand? In most Southeast Asian countries, a gap exists between the two. How should we understand good governance in an authoritarian context? And…