July 2021, Volume 32, Issue 3
How Personalist Politics Is Changing Democracies
Once mostly found in authoritarian regimes, personalism is now putting established democracies in peril—a trend that digital technology will likely make worse.
Andrea Kendall-Taylor
Andrea Kendall-Taylor is senior fellow in and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
October 2016, Volume 27, Issue 4
When Dictators Die
What political consequences can we expect when aging dictators die while in power? A fifth of the world’s autocracies are facing such a possibility, but the evidence shows that this may not augur well for democracy.