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Laws are chipping away at democracy around the world

  • Written by Chrystie Flournoy Swiney, Doctoral Fellow at Georgetown and Human Rights Attorney, Georgetown University
Laws are chipping away at democracy around the worldUS demonstrators who favor and oppose stricter gun laws, in 2018AP Photo/Steven Senne

Democracy seemed ascendant after the rivalry between communist and democratic states subsided in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. As elected governments replaced many toppled totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, the number of democracies...

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