The Playbook of the Autocrats

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Rahul Gandhi, an opposition leader in India, has been disqualified.
The Prime Minister is scared of Rahul Gandhi's next speech.
Authoritarian leaders demonize opposition and reject political pluralism.
Demonizing media and courts can lead to unchecked authoritarian ambitions.
War against civil society, universities, and independent organizations is part of the authoritarian playbook.

In this second episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to Larry Diamond, a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies and a senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Drawing on arguments in Martin’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, they discuss what’s behind a deepening global ‘democratic recession’.

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