George Mason University

How Turkey’s Justice System Became a Tool for Political Control and how backsliding ways change

Coups are supposed to be considered as the fastest way to erode a democracy. Soldiers seize power and elections disappear. But sometimes the coup...

When I first chose South Africa for this project, I expected its democracy to be weaker than it actually is. I knew South Africa was a developing...

Even with the economic ascendancy, why is Thailand’s democracy going backwards? Thailand is arguably Southeast Asia’s leading economic...

Turkey Still Has Elections. So Why Is Its Democracy Eroding? Turkey still holds elections. Opposition parties still compete, and they sometimes...

Most people when they hear the word democracy think of elections. Indonesia appears to demonstrate just that. Since the beginning of Suharto's...

When you look at the map, Mongolia is positioned at the heart of the Eurasian continent—a location that catches your eye, yet seems a...

Polyarchy doesn’t mean democratization is done. To sustain Polyarchy it needs continuous civic engagement. History and the World Wars were rarely...

Peru is considered a democracy in the sense that it has competitive, fair, and free elections, but the political instability, polarization, and...

If elections still exist, what exactly is eroding? Hungary continued to hold elections throughout Viktor Orbán’s sixteen years in power....