Examining whether election monitoring is an effective way to promote democracy or simply a means to legitimize electoral autocracies.

Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite internati

The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in

What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protago

In The Democratic Soul, Aaron L. Herold argues that liberal democracy's current crisis—of extreme polarization, rising populism, and disillusionment with poli