Around the world, governments are devising new and elaborate methods to obstruct the activities of independent civil society. This includes using the forms of law to crack down on non-governmental organizations and erecting barriers to the ability...

The Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy is honored to host the 2015 Democracy Award honoring Political Prisoners of Venezuela. Accepting on behalf of Venezuela's imprisoned political leaders,...

Rebecca Aaberg is program officer for the Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD). She has played a lead role in organizing democracy education programs in Colombia, Kosovo, and Tunisia and is currently working on a series of democracy education workshops that...

Carl Gershman is President of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, congressionally supported grant-making institution with the mission to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts....

Forum NewsAs new research by comparative political scientists increasingly turns to the topic of authoritarian resilience, scholars explored the international dimensions of authoritarianism in the February 2015 issue of APSA-CD Newsletter....

By Carl GershmanAs written in The Washington Post on November 16, 2014.Monday is the 25th anniversary of...

Nicholas Hamisevicz is the Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), where he focuses on issues affecting the U.S.-South Korea alliance, especially...

This issue of Worth Reading features four academic articles on combating corruption that were presented at a panel at the 2014 meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC.  "Of Virtuous Cycles: Modeling Control of Corruption Beyond Modernization" by...

Featuring Martin Lee, Democratic Party of Hong Kong Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong Louisa Greve, V.P. for Asia, Middle East & Africa at the NED When and...

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