... . Sourcewatch (2017), Entry on ‘Astroturf’ , The Center for Media and Democracy , available at: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Astroturf (accessed 26 February 2017). Some attempts have been made to identify and thereby nullify the impact of these bots. So alarmed was the US Defense Advanced...

... countries, there were only 69 electoral democracies in the world. By 2004, that number had risen to 119 (Freedom House, 2005). First evident in the countries of Central Europe and the former Soviet Socialist Republics, the storm of democracy has affected the structure and direction of countries in Latin...