Press freedom

Without press freedom there is no democratic deliberation or control over those exercising power. Defended from Milton's Areopagitica, early constitutional amendments, and international covenants, this freedom is today pressured by media concentration, state harassment, economic capture, and self-censorship. Revista Conciencia Democrática publishes analysis on the health of journalism and public speech.

Articles on press freedom (4)

• Lessons from the Nazer State: Crowdsourced Denunciation and the Privatization of Political Repression
  How a government-backed smartphone application converted civilian society into an instrument of state control, and what it reveals about the future of democratic erosion.
• Populism and Trump as an Expression of an Unequal Society
  A political religion that challenges American democracy and, at the same time, expresses a social demand.
• Venezuela in Transition: Five Factors Favoring a Democratic Exit
  Five dynamics — chronic illegitimacy, a brake on repression, economic infeasibility of continuity, closure of the migratory valve, and united opposition around Machado — that indicate a democratic transition remains viable.
• Russia and Western Democracies
  Timeline of a hybrid war against the rule of law. A sequence of cases stretching from Euromaidan to the Baltics: how Moscow combines propaganda, energy pressure, cyber-attacks, espionage and opaque funding to erode democratic trust without necessarily declaring war.

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