Arresting Opposition and Squashing Protests: Democratic Backsliding in Turkey Under Erdoğan
On March 19, Ekrem Imamoğlu, mayor of Istanbul, was arrested on charges of corruption and terrorism. His arrest took place days before he was...
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2025 Romanian Elections: An Election Redo and a Barred Candidate
Only two weeks out from Presidential Elections, Romanian voters face a tough decision in deciding on the next leader of their country. The latest...
Why Protecting American Democracy Means Coming Together In Protest
In the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, the Democratic Erosion Consortium's very own professors Robert Blair and Steven...
Populism as Democratic Medicine: Reiwa Shinsengumi and Japan’s Political Apathy
Revisiting Japan’s Democratic Stagnation Populism is often portrayed as a toxin to democracy—an anti-pluralist, anti-institutional movement that...
The Alien Enemies Act: Mass Deportation as a Pathway to Democratic Erosion
Trump’s notorious anti-immigration plans have remained ambitious during his second term in office, promising he “will launch the largest...
Executive Aggrandizement & Institutional Resistance: South Korea
On December 3rd, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on the basis that the “North Korean Communist forces” and...
How the Economic State Impacts Politics
One connection I see between the United States right now and Weimar Germany is the economic state. The failure of the economic system in Germany,...
The Role of Universities in Keeping American Democracy Alive
Political scientists Matthew Cleary and Aykut Öztürk, in their article When Does Backsliding Lead to Breakdown? Uncertainty and Opposition...
Media and Democracy In India: How Media Repression Is Linked to Polarization
In early January of 2025, freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was found murderered in Bijapur, a district within Chhattisgarh, India. His body...