governanceBy Elissa Miolene

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When the U.S. Agency for International Development began to crumble, democracy promotion was the first thing to fall apart.  Almost immediately, every program within the country’s global election monitoring system was canceled. The National Endowment for Democracy, which supports the core of U.S. democracy efforts, was blocked from all its funding.