George Mason University

Democracy Explained by Citizen Power, Not Economic Development Alone: The Case of Malawi

Many countries with high levels of democracy are also wealthy. This suggests that economic development and democracy are closely related....

After the collapse of President Suharto’s autocratic New Order regime in 1998, Indonesia was widely celebrated as Southeast Asia’s most resilient...

Introduction The suicide bombing in August 2nd, 2026 (in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, 14 people died...

Introduction According to Freedom House, Kenya is a multiparty democracy that holds regular and competitive elections. However, having elections...

On April 1, 2024, Bertha Gisela Gaytán stood at a campaign rally in Celaya, a city in Guanajuato torn apart by a cartel turf war. She was running...

If an active-duty military officer works inside a civilian government agency, who is really in charge of that officer? The civilian agency, or...

On December 7th, 2022, Pedro Castillo—then President of Peru—went on live television. What should’ve been a routine presidential address turned...

What happens to democracy when economic prosperity suddenly disappears? In 1959, Seymour Martin Lipset argued that economic development was...

How Democracy Dies Silently Without Brute Force It is rare for a dictator to seize a nation overnight through brute force. Instead, democracies...