Elections: a global ranking rates US weakest among liberal democracies

By Toby James, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
Holly Ann Garnett, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Royal Military College of Canada

Defending democracy has suddenly become one of the central challenges of our age. The land war in Ukraine is widely considered a front line between autocratic rule and democratic freedom. The United States continues to absorb the meaning of the riot that took place on January 6 2021 in an attempt to overthrow the result of the previous year’s election. Elsewhere, concerns have been raised that the pandemic could have provided cover for governments to

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