Evaluating Potential Authoritarian Threats: Is French President Emmanuel Macron a Populist Leader?
Many consider National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s loss of the 2017 election a victory for the preservation of French democracy, as she is...
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A Toll for Democracy: Why Thailand’s First Mass Shooting Should Be the Last Manifestation of Its Democratic Decay
Following the shocking mass shootingin the commercialized northeastern region of Thailand, Twitter trended with the hashtags “#ReformtheMilitary”...
How Mass Incarceration Threatens Democracy and Perpetuates Institutional Inequalities
While Kim Kardashian West reinvigorated the debate surrounding criminal justice reform outside of CNN or Washington, D.C. think tanks, the issue...
Is Hungary Still a Democracy?
Viktor Orbán states how he is shaping an “illiberal democracy” in Hungary. He claims that “democracy is not necessarily liberal. Just...
How Jair Bolsonaro’s Presidency Incites Democratic Erosion in Brazil
According to political scientist Juan J. Linz, the countries that are most vulnerable to democratic breakdowns are those that are relatively new...
The Curious Case of Roger Stone
For centuries this country has operated on a system of checks and balances, ensuring that the only way democracy endures is through an...
Trump’s Abandonment of Democratic Norms
Trump has stated in October of 2019 that Joe Biden was “only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama’s ass”, and...
One Machine, Two Results: The Role of Election Anxiety in the Erosion of American Democracy
On November 5th, 2019, Pennsylvania’s Northampton County held elections through digital voting machines manufactured by Election...
Democratic Erosion in the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus
On the night of February 3, 2020, Democratic voters across the United States looked to Iowa to set the stage for the 2020 Democratic primaries....