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posted on by Maggie Habib
University of Chicago Tagged With: North America, Supreme Court, United States, United States of America, voting rights
On Monday, the Supreme Court split four to four in a decision on whether Pennsylvania absentee ballots received up to three days after election day could be counted, allowing …
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posted on by Sophia Barkoff
University of Chicago Tagged With: COVID-19, Serbia, vucic
“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion.” This line from Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s book How …
posted on by Hugo Barrillon
University of Chicago Tagged With: anti-corruption, Eastern Europe, Europe, Ukraine, Zelenskiy
The Ukrainian people have been through a lot. According to a 2019 Pew Poll, 81% of Ukrainians see a fair judicial system as one of the most important priorities, nevertheless, promises of judicial …
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posted on by Dayan Vizoso
University of Chicago Tagged With: American politics, political polarization
In the United States, the people want democracy. In fact, recent work by the Pew Research Center finds that "while Americans generally agree on democratic ideals and values [...] they see the country …
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posted on by Cameron Sweeney
My first experience with our democratic system was the 2012 Presidential Election. Though only ten or eleven at the time, and not having a single clue what was going on, I very distinctly remember the …
posted on by Patrick Connor
Brown University Tagged With: 2020, Democratic Erosion, Donald Trump, election, election manipulation, federal, federal elections, gerrymandering, manipulation, United States
One month before Election Day, Republican Governor Greg Abbott issued two executive orders altering the newfound role of Texas as a swing state in the 2020 federal elections. First, he restricted …
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