A bill introduced by a member of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party is designed to gut civil society and strangle freedom of ...

An announcement from Politics and Government Editor Lori Montgomery, Deputy Politics and Government Editor Nick Baumann and ...

The arrest of a political science professor shows Indian leaders’ sensitivity to the political fallout from the military ...

Two narratives presenting opposing takes on the classification of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist far-right ...

Two things emerged clearly from this week’s Copenhagen Democracy Summit, the eighth annual gathering convened by Anders Fogh ...

While Poland is a parliamentary democracy, the presidency wields significant influence. The president serves as commander-in-chief, holds veto power, shapes foreign policy and plays a symbolic ...

For the first time, Freedom House this year introduced the Beacon Award, which went to Taiwan for its efforts to protect its ...

One of the most consistent messages I heard when I visited Germany was that the government had rigged ... memories have led to ambivalence about democracy. Declaring a quarter of the country ...

Tanzanian authorities have detained senior opposition member Amani Golugwa at the airport, heightening concerns about a ...

The Awami League is one of two major parties in Bangladesh, which has a fractious parliamentary democracy with a violent history of coups and political assassination. Hasina, the daughter of ...

Bangladesh’s Election Commission has cancelled the registration of the former ruling party of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, preventing it from participating in the next national election, which ...