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What Democracy Will Fall Next?
Foreign Policy
(2020)
Abstract
Hungary was the first democratic victim of the coronavirus. It may not be the last.
In March, Hungary became the first democracy to succumb to the coronavirus. With stunning speed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban jammed through an emergency decree that gave him extraordinary powers for an indefinite period of time and put in place draconian restrictions on political freedoms. Experts immediately began debating which democracy would be the next to fall from an autocratic power grab.
Keywords
- Bolivia,
- Brazil,
- democracy,
- India,
- Indonesia,
- Israel,
- Kenya,
- Lebanon,
- Nigeria,
- Philippines,
- Poland
Disciplines
Publication Date
May 7, 2020
Citation Information
Steven Feldstein. "What Democracy Will Fall Next?" Foreign Policy (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/steven-feldstein/20/