03 / 08 / 2009
Degrading democracy: bring to boil, then simmer…..
The world’s autocrats have devised a new recipe for retaining power, writes Moisés Naím in The Washington Post. The creeping coups use “referendums and constitutional amendments, rather than tanks and assaults on presidential palaces”, notes Naím, editor of Foreign Policy a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy, in today’s must-read article.
The recipe’s ingredients [...]