- 716
- Episodes
- 296
- Transcribed
- 12
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About IIEA Talks
Sharing Ideas Shaping Policy. The Institute of International and European Affairs is an independent policy research think-tank based in Dublin.
- Publisher
- IIEA
- Category
- government
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Jan 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
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Stuck: The Price of Latin America's Democratic Plateau

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Stuck: The Price of Latin America's Democratic Plateau
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So of all the countries in the third wave that at some point stagnated, saw democratic stagnation, only one of them was able to break out of it and become a sustained high-quality democracy, Slovakia. In Latin America, not a single one of them was able to, once a democracy stagnated, get out of it. Brazil is the only case that had some advancement after stagnation, but it was also recovering from the erosion that experienced in 2013 through 2018. Looking at it from the other end of the 53 third wave democracies that died, 49 were stuck in their last democratic year. So 92% of democratic breakdowns came from moments of stagnation. […]
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