Democracy under Pressure

Ursula van Beek is the founder Director of the former Transformation Research Unit (TRU) and its successor CREDO, the Centre for the Study of Democracy, at the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

• 1. Quo Vadis Democracy? Editor's Introduction.- 2. From the End of History to the End of the World? Global Challenges to Democracy.- 3. Economic and Political Implications of Technological Advances.- 4. Back to the Future: The Rise of Nationalist Populism.- 5. Global and Regional Developments at the Macro- and Micro-Levels.- 6. South Africa and Kenya.- 7. United States - Canada.- 8. Argentina-Chile-Uruguay.- 9. South Korea-Taiwan - The Philippines.- 10. Germany-Italy.- 11. Poland-Estonia.- 12. Democratic Resilience in Sweden.- 13. Varieties of Turkish Democracy: A Progress in Reverse?.- 14. Cross-Area Finding: Patterns and Prospects.- 15. Empirical Assessments: The Return of History.- 16. Looking Ahead: Democracy and Modernity.

“The editor has discharged a worthy service in assembling a variety of fine complementary studies. Many of them are accompanied by contextualizing historical surveys … .” (Michael Freeden, Minerva, Vol. 61 (4), 2023)​