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[Please click "More" to read our disclaimer below] ISA President Kristian Gleditsch gave a virtual talk for the ISA Midwest annual conference, held in St. Louis, MO from November 19-21, 2021. To learn more about the International Studies Association Midwest region, click here: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Regions/Midwest _The viewer should note that the opinions expressed in this audio/video recording are those of th....

This is an excerpt from a panel discussion on the current state of democracy. The full event video is available at https://youtu.be/eFjk9f8ziVc A transcript of the event is available at https://cis.mit.edu/events/transcripts/starr-forum-democracy-dying Speakers: Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT. His most recent book is Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and....

In the mid-1970s, citizens across the world took to the streets to demand democracy from their governments, spurring a wave of democratization that transformed governments from Africa to Asia to Europe. But a concerning trend of democratic “backsliding” has taken place in recent years, writes the author of a new study in Science, as governments gradually shift away from their democratic ideals and slip closer tow....