In other words, half of the "democratizing" countries in the world today are illiberal democracies.

According to Fareed Zakaria, illiberal democracies are increasing around the world and are increasingly limiting the freedoms of the people they represent.

There is a spectrum of illiberal democracies: from those that are nearly liberal democracies to those that are almost openly dictatorships.

In cases where political participation via elections takes place prior to the establishment of such liberties, illiberal democracy would be the outcome.

Owing at least in part to meager competition, illiberal democracy seems to be the leading candidate to become American foreign policy's new guiding paradigm.

Mr. Huntington, generally considered a conservative, is quite sympathetic to illiberal democracy.

Walkovers can thus often be a sign of an illiberal democracy.

He called these nations "illiberal democracies": countries in Asia, but also countries like Russia and Peru, where leaders bypass their parliaments to rule by presidential decree.

But despite such "illiberal democracies," there are signs of democracy operating in nondemocratic countries.

Those who hold this view sometimes point to the existence of illiberal democracy and liberal autocracy as evidence that constitutional liberalism and democratic government are not necessarily interconnected.