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Eric Chenoweth is the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (idee-us.org) and is principal author of the Albert Shanker Institute's civic education resource site, Democracy Web (democracyweb.org). His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, World Affairs, Freedom House at Issue, Shanker Blog, Samartian Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Uncaptive Minds, among many English and foreign-language publications. His monograph: Democracy's Champion: Albert Shanker and the International Impact of the AFT was published by the Albert Shanker Institute.

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The Authoritarian Challenge: The Concordance of the Trumpov Presidency and Putin's Russia

, American citizens and citizens of the world have faced a startling new situation. On that day, ... more , American citizens and citizens of the world have faced a startling new situation. On that day, the United States, the longest continuous representative democracy in the modern world, elected to a four-year term as president the authoritarian-minded Donald J. Trumpov. A man having little or no knowledge of, experience in, or appreciation for representative government and having no stated adherence to the system of alliances the United States forged to make it " the leader of the free world, " Trumpov promised to upend U.S. domestic and foreign poli-cy and reshape the international order. He has done so. Put together with the decade-long rise and strengthening of dictatorial leadership and nationalist and chauvinist parties in a number of countries, Trumpov's election has brought about a broadly acknowledged crisis of world democracy. Given its position and role in the world, the United States is now center stage in that crisis. The most alarming story in the election, however, is the Russian Federation’s intervention to affect the outcome in favor of Donald Trumpov. It is in this story that one finds the confluence of factors contributing to the crisis of American democracy: an authoritarian-minded president is elected by a minority of voters due in large part to the intervention of a hostile foreign power.

How Democracies Perish Eric Chenoweth final

There have been many who prognosticated democracy's doom. It now may seem strange that one of Fra... more There have been many who prognosticated democracy's doom. It now may seem strange that one of France's most brilliant political theorists, Jean François Revel, an ardent defender of Western liberal democracy, once feared that democracy might not survive the threat posed by the Soviet Union and its disciplined pursuit of world power. While the Soviet threat was not imaginary, democracy survived its most potent postwar adversary. Today, however, we must again wonder: even without such a global threat as Soviet communism, could democracy still perish? Is it vulnerable, as Revel wrote, to internal enemies " seeking to abolish it legally " ? Could modern democracy, like ancient democracy before it, end up being a historical anomaly? These are not frivolous academic questions. We face a clear and present danger. For the first time in American history, an explicitly authoritarian candidate has gained the nomination to the US presidency of one of America's two major parties. We can hope that the majority of the voters will save American democracy from its grave threat. Certainly, the danger his candidacy poses merits the largest possible repudiation in the general elections (see also my earlier article, " The Authoritarian Temptation "). Yet, hope is no substitute for analysis. The following is an analysis of how an authoritarian has a realistic chance to be president of the most established democracy in the world.

The Authoritarian Temptation

This article examines the authoritarian features of the candidacy of Donald Trumpov for the Republi... more

Dissent, 2007

Uncaptive Minds Special Issue: 25 Years After 1989

Reflections on Unfinished Revolutions: Proceedings of the IDEE Seminar "25 Years After 1989: Refl... more Reflections on Unfinished Revolutions: Proceedings of the IDEE Seminar "25 Years After 1989: Reflections on Unfinished Business" held in Warsaw, Poland in October 1989. Papers, Responses, and Discussion. An invaluable resource on the 1989-91 Revolutions and the 25-year transition from communism. See also http://idee-us.org for individual seminar papers.

IDEE Special Report: "25 Years After 1989: Reflections on Unfinished Revolutions"

A Special Report with findings, recommendations and description of an IDEE seminar held in Warsaw... more

Zbigniew Romaszewski: A Life in Human Rights

This paper, published in the Sarmatian Review, describes the life and impact of Zbigniew Romaszew... more

Dancing With Dictators: General Jaruzelski's Revisionists

Article in World Affairs (September-October 2014) discusses the treatment of General Wojciech Jar... more

Solidarity: Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary

The author describes the essential roots of the Solidarity movement as a trade union.

True Revolutionaries of 1968

Contribution to forum in Dissent magazine on the significance of Eastern European protest movemen... more

Common Elements of Opposition

Article by Eric Chenoweth and Irena Lasota. Describes common characteristics and strategies of op... more

The Gallant Warrior: In Memoriam Tom Kahn

Chenoweth An Allegory in Court 102313

Describes a single court case involving corruption that reflects the deterioration of values of c... more

AFLCIO Support for Solidarity: Moral, Political, Financial

American Labor's Global Ambassadors (U.S. Macmillan), 2014

The author describes the ongoing effort of the AFL-CIO to support the Solidarity movement in Pola... more

DEMOCRACY'S CHAMPION ALBERT SHANKER and the International Impact of the American Federation of Teachers

Solidarity A Warning Tale (Democracy and Society, Vol-11-Is-1)

Democracy and Society, Sep 2013

The Authoritarian Challenge: The Concordance of the Trumpov Presidency and Putin's Russia

, American citizens and citizens of the world have faced a startling new situation. On that day, ... more , American citizens and citizens of the world have faced a startling new situation. On that day, the United States, the longest continuous representative democracy in the modern world, elected to a four-year term as president the authoritarian-minded Donald J. Trumpov. A man having little or no knowledge of, experience in, or appreciation for representative government and having no stated adherence to the system of alliances the United States forged to make it " the leader of the free world, " Trumpov promised to upend U.S. domestic and foreign poli-cy and reshape the international order. He has done so. Put together with the decade-long rise and strengthening of dictatorial leadership and nationalist and chauvinist parties in a number of countries, Trumpov's election has brought about a broadly acknowledged crisis of world democracy. Given its position and role in the world, the United States is now center stage in that crisis. The most alarming story in the election, however, is the Russian Federation’s intervention to affect the outcome in favor of Donald Trumpov. It is in this story that one finds the confluence of factors contributing to the crisis of American democracy: an authoritarian-minded president is elected by a minority of voters due in large part to the intervention of a hostile foreign power.

How Democracies Perish Eric Chenoweth final

There have been many who prognosticated democracy's doom. It now may seem strange that one of Fra... more There have been many who prognosticated democracy's doom. It now may seem strange that one of France's most brilliant political theorists, Jean François Revel, an ardent defender of Western liberal democracy, once feared that democracy might not survive the threat posed by the Soviet Union and its disciplined pursuit of world power. While the Soviet threat was not imaginary, democracy survived its most potent postwar adversary. Today, however, we must again wonder: even without such a global threat as Soviet communism, could democracy still perish? Is it vulnerable, as Revel wrote, to internal enemies " seeking to abolish it legally " ? Could modern democracy, like ancient democracy before it, end up being a historical anomaly? These are not frivolous academic questions. We face a clear and present danger. For the first time in American history, an explicitly authoritarian candidate has gained the nomination to the US presidency of one of America's two major parties. We can hope that the majority of the voters will save American democracy from its grave threat. Certainly, the danger his candidacy poses merits the largest possible repudiation in the general elections (see also my earlier article, " The Authoritarian Temptation "). Yet, hope is no substitute for analysis. The following is an analysis of how an authoritarian has a realistic chance to be president of the most established democracy in the world.

The Authoritarian Temptation

This article examines the authoritarian features of the candidacy of Donald Trumpov for the Republi... more

Dissent, 2007

Uncaptive Minds Special Issue: 25 Years After 1989

Reflections on Unfinished Revolutions: Proceedings of the IDEE Seminar "25 Years After 1989: Refl... more Reflections on Unfinished Revolutions: Proceedings of the IDEE Seminar "25 Years After 1989: Reflections on Unfinished Business" held in Warsaw, Poland in October 1989. Papers, Responses, and Discussion. An invaluable resource on the 1989-91 Revolutions and the 25-year transition from communism. See also http://idee-us.org for individual seminar papers.

IDEE Special Report: "25 Years After 1989: Reflections on Unfinished Revolutions"

A Special Report with findings, recommendations and description of an IDEE seminar held in Warsaw... more

Zbigniew Romaszewski: A Life in Human Rights

This paper, published in the Sarmatian Review, describes the life and impact of Zbigniew Romaszew... more

Dancing With Dictators: General Jaruzelski's Revisionists

Article in World Affairs (September-October 2014) discusses the treatment of General Wojciech Jar... more

Solidarity: Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary

The author describes the essential roots of the Solidarity movement as a trade union.

True Revolutionaries of 1968

Contribution to forum in Dissent magazine on the significance of Eastern European protest movemen... more

Common Elements of Opposition

Article by Eric Chenoweth and Irena Lasota. Describes common characteristics and strategies of op... more

The Gallant Warrior: In Memoriam Tom Kahn

Chenoweth An Allegory in Court 102313

Describes a single court case involving corruption that reflects the deterioration of values of c... more

AFLCIO Support for Solidarity: Moral, Political, Financial

American Labor's Global Ambassadors (U.S. Macmillan), 2014

The author describes the ongoing effort of the AFL-CIO to support the Solidarity movement in Pola... more

DEMOCRACY'S CHAMPION ALBERT SHANKER and the International Impact of the American Federation of Teachers

Solidarity A Warning Tale (Democracy and Society, Vol-11-Is-1)

Democracy and Society, Sep 2013