Leilani Chew

Democratic Erosion during National Emergencies: Voting Rights in the United States throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Senators Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden recently proposed emergency voting reforms which would allow every U.S. state to expand the use of vote-by-mail. According to Klobuchar, these changes would help...

Evaluating Potential Authoritarian Threats: Is French President Emmanuel Macron a Populist Leader?

Boston University

Many consider National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s loss of the 2017 election a victory for the preservation of French democracy, as she is widely considered an anti-democratic populist. By Levitsky...