The paper identifies countries that have fallen within each of these categories during the last ten years, describing thirty-two bright spots and the key political events that marked them. Pivotal elections: where a democratically backsliding or stagnant government loses power in an election.Blocked power grabs: where a leader already in power attempts to extend their term or authority in contravention of existing rules or norms and is thwarted, whether by legal institutions or mass mobilization and.Promising authoritarian successions: where an authoritarian regime experiences a leadership succession that appears to open the door to democratic progress within the framework of regime continuity.
Citizen mobilizations oust a leader: where mass mobilization ousts a democratically challenged leader in the midst of their term.This paper addresses this question by offering a typology centered around four different types of political junctures: But prior to those lies a basic but underexplored question: What constitutes a democratic bright spot? This raises important practical policy questions about how the United States can most effectively assist bright spot countries. democracy policy: the United States will give special attention and support to democratic “bright spots.” The aim of this approach is to help countries move ahead successfully after they experience new democratic momentum or a democratic opening. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced an important new element of U.S. In June 2022, Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S.
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