SOS democracy?

Is democracy in danger? Have we entered the era of populism and authoritarianism? Regardless of which continent you look at, there is no shortage of examples to stir pessimism: the United States of Donald Trump, Nicaragua, Honduras, Zimbabwe, Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Cambodia and the Philippines are just a few. Yet there are less autocracies and wars than just three decades ago (60 compared with 85, and 12 compared with 23, respectively). And, as Canadian academic (…)