Is Democracy an Endangered Species?
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Claim: the share of people living in fully functioning democracies falls from two in five to one in five over a decade, driven by leaders who win elections then erode checks—often by changing constitutions to remove term limits. Tools are social platforms that spread “post‑truth” narratives and the capture of election infrastructure at state level. Surprising numbers: the 2/5→1/5 shift and Germany suddenly pledging 2% of GDP to defense after the Ukraine war.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00The state of democracy
- 1:43The three Ps of power
- 3:25Autocratic strategies
- 4:57The threat of global trends
- 7:10Legitimacy and elections
- 9:41US and Indian politics
- 11:32The role of the tech sector
- 14:01Geopolitics and democracy
- 15:42Europe's geopolitical wake-up
- 18:16Recovering peripheral vision
- 19:29Refining the three Ps