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Election chart
Hungary April 2026 seat chartHorizontal bar chart of Hungary's April 2026 National Assembly seats: Tisza 141 seats, Fidesz 52 seats. Hungary, April 2026: National Assembly seats 16 years of dominance ended Tisza 141 Fidesz 52 recreated seat count
Horizontal bar chart of Hungary's April 2026 National Assembly seats: Tisza 141 seats, Fidesz 52 seats.
  • Tisza 141 seats, Fidesz 52, April 2026
  • Ends 16 years of Fidesz dominance
  • Concepts: hybrid regime, democratic backsliding in reverse, political cleavage
Demographic chart
Turnout versus Freedom House score, Turkey and the United StatesBar chart comparing voter turnout (Turkey 87%, United States 65%) with Freedom House scores (Turkey 32/100, United States 81/100). High turnout is not the same as freedom Turnout: Turkey 2023, U.S. 2024 · Freedom House 2026 Voter turnout 87% Turkey 65% United States Freedom House score (/100) 32 Turkey 81 United States Freedom House 2026; turnout: Turkey 2023, U.S. 2024
Bar chart comparing voter turnout (Turkey 87%, United States 65%) with Freedom House scores (Turkey 32/100, United States 81/100).
  • Turkish turnout 87% vs American turnout 65%, with Freedom House scores
  • Concepts: political participation, legitimacy, hybrid regimes
Protest photograph
  • Protesters outside South Korea's National Assembly, December 2024
  • The night lawmakers voted to overturn martial law
  • Concepts: liberal democracy, checks and balances, legitimacy
Geopolitical headline
  • Iran's Assembly of Experts elects Mojtaba Khamenei
  • Eight days after his father was killed
  • Concepts: theocracy, rational-legal legitimacy, authority in the office or the person?
Political cartoon
  • Keiko Fujimori: Peru's ninth president in ten years
  • Concepts: presidential systems, rule by law
  • Impeachment as a check vs impeachment as a weapon
Data point
44 of about 179 countries currently autocratizing per V-Dem 2026Grid of 180 squares with 44 filled in red, showing that V-Dem counts 44 of roughly 179 countries as autocratizing in 2026. 44 countries autocratizing V-Dem 2026: 44 of ~179 countries V-Dem Democracy Report 2026
Grid of 180 squares with 44 filled in red, showing that V-Dem counts 44 of roughly 179 countries as autocratizing in 2026.
  • V-Dem: 44 countries currently autocratizing, nearly a quarter of the world
  • Concept: democratic backsliding as a global pattern, not national accidents
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