Arizona State University

Democratic Means to Undemocratic Ends – How Donald Trump is Weaponizing Democracy for His Own Gain

Modern autocratization is often marked by executive leaders weaponizing the legal system of the democratic country they were elected to lead. It...

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...

American and Brazilian politics are intimately interconnected, and as a result have comparably similar social trends with misinformation, public...

As an entrenched democracy with widespread and relatively open political and social institutions, the United Kingdom might not immediately come...

In 2021, nearly 4 million people were assisted by the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program including 2.1 million school age children across...

***Note from the author: My post is meant to analyze constructively the state of democratic institutions in Israel and remark on how the current...

Mike Johnson was recently elected as the new speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Johnson is a supporter of former President...

The current regime of Bangladesh ruled by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been categorized as an authoritarian regime by the V-Dem Institute, a...

The case of Malaysian politics is a fascinating subject. In 2023, V-Dem considered Malaysia an electoral autocracy, although the report also...