Crisis Gives Timor-Leste Chance to Revive Faltering Democracy
Timor-Leste’s response to the coronavirus emergency is giving new life to the country’s beleaguered democracy. Despite finding itself in a...
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As the Coronavirus Spreads—So Does Democratic Erosion
Amidst the onset of an economic recession in 2008, the Wall Street Journal quoted former Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emmanual with his now-infamous...
Gnashing of Teeth: Abandonment and Insecurity in American Prisons
Theorists use a range of scales to identify the turning points of democratization and de-democratization. Some prefer to focus on political...
Minority Parties Win Power, Not Inclusion, in Lithuania
In 2016, the populist Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) took center stage in Lithuanian politics after unexpectedly winning a plurality...
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Reshuffle Is Step Away From Democracy
The recent resignation of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and the ensuring political turmoil in Malaysia is a step backwards for the...
How Attacks on Press Freedom in Bulgaria Spell Trouble for Democracy
On October 6th, 2018, Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova was found murdered in a park along the Danube. 30-year old Marinova had been a...
Policy and Plagues: Warning Signals for Gay Poland
In How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a list of warnings. Four red flags that signal when anti-democratic politicians’...
The Disappointment of George Weah
The 2017 Liberian Presidential election had all the trappings of a major step in the process of democratization, but instead opened a period of...
Peru’s Reformer President Undermines Democratic Norms
When Martín Vizcarra first assumed the Peruvian presidency in 2018, he appeared to be the unlikely hero to restore the nation’s faith in...