Thread by @ForeignPolicy

In the Issue: Around the world, democracy is at its lowest point in a generation. So, in our Winter 2022 print edition, we asked experts to help us focus on how to fix things.

Read our latest collection of arguments, analyses, reports and reviews here:
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2/ We brought together 10 prominent thinkers to share their ideas on how to reform the workings of democracy, defend it against threats, and ensure it better serves the people it governs.
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3/ In Western democracies, far-right populists have successfully recast themselves as defenders of a bygone order, engendering an us-versus-them divide. How to fix this? “Abolish two-party systems,” argues @leedrutman.
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4/ There needs to be a formal alliance of world democracies, argues @AndersFoghR.

“The world’s democracies represent more than 70 percent of global GDP. If that power is leveraged, that’s a language Beijing and Moscow will understand.”
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5/ Many Americans are convinced that if the opposition wins, it is likely by fraud. This mentality is dangerous to democracy's survival, argues @FareedZakaria. To remedy this, an age-old question must be revisited: How do we produce virtue in human beings?
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6/ @landemore argues that the only way to rectify democracy’s mistakes is to rework the design—to fully reimagine what it means to be democratic. “Tinkering at the edges won’t do.”
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7/ Climate mitigation and democratic governance may actually be in conflict with one another, argues @CameronAbadi: “We should not be surprised if political processes that evolved to solve very different problems have trouble coping.”
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8/ @StephenMarche makes the case that despite being the world’s most enduring democracy and largest economy, the United States is currently a textbook case of a country on the brink of civil conflict.
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9/ Book Review: Jan-Werner Müller discusses two new books on democracy. In one of these books, scholar @AllanLichtman identifies 13 particularly vulnerable points, or “cracks,” in U.S. democracy.
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10/ In the same book review, Jan-Werner Müller also discusses a volume edited by Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, and Thomas Piketty that embarks on an ambitious inquiry into party systems in 50 different democracies.
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Plus: From Colombia to Bosnia and Herzegovina to South Korea, 2022 is stacked with elections that could fundamentally reshape their respective countries’ political systems—and destinies.
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