The Last Argument for Democracy

I have a new open access journal article out in Democratic Theory, The Last Argument for Democracy: The Unsettling Reliance of Embedded Democracies on Authoritarian Specter Regimes. As it s open access, there are no paywalls. You can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2332889426000333. Here s the abstract: Winston Churchill’s line—that democracy is “the worst form of Government” except…