“Competitive authoritarianism”—a type of regime that combines competitive elections with serious violations of democratic procedures—has proliferated during the post-Cold War era. Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way explored these trends and discussed the questions that they raise.

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John Burgess discussed his new CIMA report, Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure, which examines the strengths and shortcomings of media freedom indexes-in particular IREX's Media Sustainability Index, Freedom House's Freedom of the Press, and Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index- and offers recommendations to improve these and other studies.

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The International Forum for Democratic Studies and the Europe Program of the National Endowment for Democracy brought together academic experts on comparative constitutional design with legal and country specialists to discuss how Bosnia and Herzegovina can complete its democratic transition and achieve its Euro-Atlantic aspirations.

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