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An authoritarian wave is sweeping across the world. But the new autocrats aren’t using old-fashioned methods like military or executive coups to keep themselves in business. They are resorting to new and improved modern tools to subvert checks and balances on their power, escape accountability, and hollow out liberal democracies from the inside without fearing the terrible optics of calling in tanks or formally suspending their country’s constitution.

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Join the Mercatus Center and Freedom House for a panel, The New Authoritarian Toolkit, on Wednesday, November 10 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. ET to highlight some of the tools in vogue with authoritarian leaders today. Mercatus Visiting Fellow Shikha Dalmia will lead the discussion with four world-renowned experts following these trends. Register today to attend. ​​​​​​

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Panelists: 
Salil Tripathi, author and former foreign correspondent 
Zselyke Csaky, research director for Europe and Eurasia, Freedom House
Steven Feldstein, senior fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Javier Corrales, professor of political science, Amherst College

Moderator:
Shikha Dalmia, visiting fellow, Mercatus Center’s Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange