Shaking Up Democracy: Is Mexico’s 2024 Judicial Reform Democratic Backsliding?
Judicial Reform in Mexico June 1, 2025, marked a landmark institutional shift in Mexico. For the first time in the country’s history, it held...
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Election Denialism: A Comparison of American and Brazilian Tendencies in Public Trust Scandals, Misinformation, and Political Violence
American and Brazilian politics are intimately interconnected, and as a result have comparably similar social trends with misinformation, public...
Democracy in the United Kingdom: Resilient or a Recipe for Erosion?
As an entrenched democracy with widespread and relatively open political and social institutions, the United Kingdom might not immediately come...
Food and Democracy: Democracy-building U.S. Aid Program under Threat
In 2021, nearly 4 million people were assisted by the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program including 2.1 million school age children across...
Dying Democracy in Israel
***Note from the author: My post is meant to analyze constructively the state of democratic institutions in Israel and remark on how the current...
Speaker of the House and Cause for Concern
Mike Johnson was recently elected as the new speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Johnson is a supporter of former President...
Is Bangladesh an Exceptional Case of Democratic Backsliding?
The current regime of Bangladesh ruled by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been categorized as an authoritarian regime by the V-Dem Institute, a...
Malaysia’s Institutional, Socio-cultural, and Foreign Challenges to Democracy
The case of Malaysian politics is a fascinating subject. In 2023, V-Dem considered Malaysia an electoral autocracy, although the report also...
Georgia’s Gerrymandering, Legal Institutions, and Democratic Backsliding
A federal judge ruled that Georgia’s congressional and state legislative districts must be redrawn prior to the 2024 election. The report...