Democracy in Peril: It’s Sliding and it Shows!

According to a recent report released by the Institute for Democracy Electoral Assistance (IDEA) democracy itself is in a state of retrograde. The 2021 IDEA report is relatively long and while it does encompass a thorough and well established overview of many of the trends toward the backsliding of democracy, it is also understandably missing a few pieces to the immensity of the full story (as is this…