Transcending the Clash of Cultures: Freedom, Development, and Human Worth

In three of the six democracies surveyed by the East Asia Barometer, a majority of respondents prefer democracy to its alternatives. In the other three, however, a lingering nostalgia for…

For more than two decades, President Yoweri Museveni has been building an authoritarian regime that answers closely to his personal will.

A review of Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries by Arend Lijphart and Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Views, by G. Bingham…