TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Danger Disconnect
I. The Democratic Disconnect
Roberto Stefan Foa and Yoscha Mounk
Is democratic deconsolidation underway in the United State and Europe? In recent years, support for democracy, especially among millennials, has been dwindling in a number of established democracies.

II. How Much Should We Worry?
Ronald F. Inglehart
The evidence presented by Foa and Mounk is troubling, but it does not mean that democracy is now in long-term decline.

25 Years After the USSR: What's Gone Wrong?
Henry E. Carter
The interplay between elections, popular protests, and international pressures has a profound effect on the behavior of African autocrats and their ability to stay in power even after their time is up.

II. The Power of Protest
Janette Yarwood
As more and more African presidents attempt to remove or circumvent constitutional term limits, African populations increasingly are mobilizing en masse, at great risk, to defend their constitutions.

III. A New Look at the Evidence
Filip Reyntjens
There is strong empirical evidence to support the correlation between effective term limits and the quality of democracy.

The Assault on Postcommunist Courts
Bojan Bugaric and Tom Ginsburg
A number of countries in East-Central Europe are facing a grave crisis of constitutional democracy. As their governments seek to undermine the institutional limits on their power, constitutional courts have become a central target.

Xi Jinping's Maoist Revival
Suisheng Zhao
Far from being a reformer, as some had hoped, President Xi Jinping has launched the most sweeping ideological campaign seen in China since Mao. Xi is mixing nationalism, Leninism, and Maoism in ways that he hopes will cement continued one-party Communist rule.

Delegative Democracy Revisited
To what extent can the concept of delegative democracy developed by Guillermo O'Donnell two decades ago be useful in analyzing the problems confronting democracy in Latin America today?

I. More Inclusion, Less Liberalism in Bolivia
Santiago Anria

II. Ecuador Under Correa
Catherine M. Conaghan

III. Brazil's Accountability Paradox
Frances Hagopian

IV. Chile's Crisis of Representation
Juan Pablo Luna

V. Colombia's Surprising Resilience
Lindsay R. Mayka

VI. Peru Since Fujimori
Alberto Vergara and Aaron Watanabe

VII. Latin America's Problems of Success
Juan Pablo Luna and Alberto Vergara

Shadows in the Swiss Paradise
Clive H. Church and Adrian Vatter
Long a standout example of consensus-based politics, prosperous Switzerland has now become a mixed democracy with a good deal of polarization and uncertain prospects.

BOOK IN REVIEW
The Internet of Things
Daniel O'Maley
A review of Pax Technica: How the Internet of Thins May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up by Philip N. Howard

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