Members of parliaments across Africa face regular accusations of being unrepresentative of their constituents.

Evidently, democracy is also weakening in hitherto well-established liberal democracies, even as autocracy deepens in others.

At the moment, unfortunately, it seems more likely that Europe will be the last powerful holdout in a world entering a new ...

LAURA GAMBOA is Assistant Professor of Democracy and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of ...

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