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So you want to be an autocrat? Here's the 10-point checklist

  • Written by Shelley Inglis, Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
Two autocrats: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, left, and Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, right, in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 7, 2019. AP/Presidential Press Service

Democracy is in trouble, despite popular uprisings and dynamic social movements in Lebanon, Hong Kong and across Europe and Latin America.

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