In Korea as in the United States, we need to investigate and understand what works and what does not. This past week, the Center for Korean Studies hosted an important conference with leading scholars ...

Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.

The tests for the absence of democracy are simpler than for the existence of it. The absence of democracy can be gauged by two tests: Is there a government that is elected, and does the government ...