As defined by political scientists, democratic backsliding is the gradual breakdown of democratic institutions within a country. With the rise of...
Before World War II, America tried to keep to itself. The young country was trying to keep its head above water after decades of economic...
Exploring the concept of the promissory coup as it relates to the traditional coup d'etat. The general global decline in...
There is almost no other political expression as irritatingly frustrating to me as the “arc of history” is. The phrase, as popularized by...
Are digital voter files undermining free and fair elections in the United States? Could the United States’ democratic electoral...
Pippa Norris’s article Is Western Democracy Backsliding? Diagnosing the Risks analyzes period, life-cycle, and generation effects in...
In the United States some people may feel that having elected Donald Trump as president has contributed to the increase of populism. Citizens...
The fall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union brought hope that the newly liberated Central and Eastern European countries would...
Levitsky and Ziblatt present what appears to be a transparent strategy to protect a democracy. We the people, and actors in appointed positions...