After a summer marked by a global health crisis, social upheaval, and a devastating economic downturn, the stakes of an American presidential election have never been higher. And with early voting …
Thailand’s Hypocrisy: A Case Study of Stealth Authoritarianism
Though the Thai government does not necessarily hide its autocratic tendencies, it is far from willing to let go of the democratic label. On October 15th 2020, after three months of student-led …
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Unions and Political Representation: How the Decline of Collective Bargaining Threatens Democracy
In the United States, union membership has set a national standard – a north star – for employee protections, labor rights, and political organization in the workplace. However, since the 1980’s, …
The Danger of Trump’s Rhetoric in American Democracy
In 2016, a man with no political experience and little political support was elected president of the United States. Previously, no president had been elected without a background in government or the …
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Constitutional Hardball and the United States Supreme Court
In their seminal work How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt identify two principal constitutional guardrails that, they argue, have allowed democracy to survive in the United States …
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The End of Nicaraguan Democracy
In 1984, Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) won the presidency after having overthrown the almost ten-year dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Ortega served one …
