Okay But Really, How Is Putin Still in Power?
Supporters of Alexander Navalny protest in St. Petersburg ahead of Vladimir Putin's "election" to a fourth term as PresidentOlga Maltseva/AFP via...
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Marine Le Pen: A Threat to France’s Democracy
Marine Le Pen's populist-nationalist tactics, anti-immigration, and xenophobic sentiment could damage French democracy if she were to be elected...
Voting Suppression: A Spotlight on Texas
The year is 2022, and two years have passed since President Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election. Across the country, Republicans at all...
Sri Lankan Resistance to Rajapaksa’s Authoritarian Regime
Ever since his election victory in 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapska has been propelling the island nation of Sri Lanka into a repressive and...
Is France in Danger of Populism?
What is populism? Is there a clear-concise definition of populism? Scholars have different perceptions of what populism is and the definition...
Benin: How Elections Led to Democratic Backsliding
Patrice Talon (L) is handed a national flag during his swearing in as president of Benin at Charles de Gaulle Stadium in the capital Porto-Novo...
DeSantis Assumes Control of Redistricting in Florida
In recent weeks, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis achieved a major victory in the state’s redistricting process following an announcement by...
Going Nuclear, and Its Threats to American Democracy
In 2013, United States Senate Democrats went nuclear. That is, they changed the rules so that it would take only a simple majority to override a...
Democratic Backsliding in Tunisia: The Lone Democracy in the Arab World
Emerging as a democracy after the Arab Spring, Tunisia was a source of hope and a leading example for the development of democracy in the Arab...