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by Alondra Servín Velázquez
(UNAM and Network of Women Political Scientists #NoSinMujeres)
& Celso de Oliveira Santos (Rio de Janeiro State University UERJ)
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Servín Velázquez, Alondra & Celso de Oliveira Santos. 2026. Crimes Against Democracy. Changes Within Democracy Blog, October 26. Available at: changeswithindemocracy.substack.com/p/democracies-under-internal-pressure
by Flavia Freidenberg
(UNAM and Network of Women Political Scientists #NoSinMujeres)
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Freidenberg, Flavia. 2026. A Clinic for Democracies. Changes Within Democracy Blog, September 21. Available at: https://changeswithindemocracy.substack.com/p/una-clinica-para-las-democracias
Why reports on democracy need to account for transnational autocratic cooperation.
Why reports on democracy need to account for transnational autocratic cooperation.
by Armando Chaguaceda (GAPAC AC) & Raudiel Peña Barrios (UIA)
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Chaguaceda, Armando & Raudiel Peña Barrios. 2026. Democracies under Internal Pressure…and External? Autocratic Cooperation as a De-democratizing Factor and Reports on the State of Democracy. Changes Within Democracy Blog, August 5. Available at: https://changeswithindemocracy.substack.com/p/democracies-under-internal-pressure
Why measuring judicial resilience requires looking not only at attacks on courts, but at how courts respond
Why measuring judicial resilience requires looking not only at attacks on courts, but at how courts respond
by Patricia Sotomayor Valarezo
(Universidad San Francisco de Quito and
Network of Women Political Scientists #NoSinMujeres)
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Sotomayor Valarezo, Patricia. 2026. When Do Courts Resist? Institutional Conditions for Measuring Judicial Resilience. Changes Within Democracy Blog, July 1. Available at: https://changeswithindemocracy.substack.com/p/when-do-courts-resist-institutional
Five methodological decisions for evaluating democracy without relying on a single index.
Five methodological decisions for evaluating democracy without relying on a single index.
by Flavia Freidenberg & Karolina Gilas
(UNAM and Network of Women Political Scientists #NoSinMujeres)
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Freidenberg, Flavia & Karolina Gilas. 2026. How Can We Tell Whether a Country Is Democratic? Changes Within Democracy Blog, June 15. Available at: https://changeswithindemocracy.substack.com/p/how-can-we-tell-whether-a-country
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