Sectarian Politics in Lebanon and Its Relevance to Democracy
Lebanon was created by colonialism, which began with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War 1. At the end of the war, in...
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The Failure of Political Parties: Institutions As Gatekeepers in Indonesia’s Democratic System
Although many assume democracies die “at the hands of men with guns,” Levitsky and Ziblatt (2018) stress that there are “other ways to break a...
The Anti-Apartheid Movement: A Case Study of Finkel’s “The Phoenix Effect of State Repression”
In "The Phoenix Effect of State Repression: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust" Evgeny Finkel argued that rebel groups that have been forced...
Viability of the Virtually Organized Protests in Hong Kong
Photo: Danish Siddiqui, December 8, 2019, Reuters.1 In “’Conventional’ and ‘Virtual’ Civil Societies in Autocratic Regimes” Mark Beissinger...
Venezuela’s Democratic Decline
Venezuela was once a wealthy country known for its strong constitutional democracy and peaceful shifts of power but collapsed under Higo Chavez’s...
Democratic Dreams in Georgia
Under any circumstance a flawed election can be an uncharacteristic setback in democracy. The amount of democratic electoral systems around the...
How Renewable Energy can Lessen Putin’s Grip on Russia
President Vladimir Putin is more vulnerable than some may realize. By over-relying on oil and natural gas production to fund social welfare...
Can Liberian Democracy Survive the Coronavirus?
Riot Police respond to protests against foreign businesses, which were exempt from forced market closures. In the developed world, the...
Why Coronavirus Spells Trouble for Democracy in Poland
Crises have always created opportunities for undemocratic leaders to consolidate power. Hitler used the Reichstag fire, Alberto Fujimori used the...