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Polarization has become a huge issue in today’s politics and the implications of an “in group” vs “out group” has led to a lot of political...

For anyone who has paid attention to U.S. politics over the past couple years, many blatant instances of democratic erosion have been hard to...

Ever since the election in 2020, one of the common themes throughout conservative media is the “fact” that the election was stolen, and Donald...

Since World War II, no far-right nationalist movement leaders have held any seats in the German parliament, but this changed during the 2017...

Colombia’s democracy has been on a decline for quite some time now. Evidence of democratic backsliding can be seen through acts of violence...

Setting The Scene Poland is one of the few post-communist states which was able to gain EU membership, but ongoing undemocratic practices within...

After the death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez in 2013, Nicholás Maduro became the country’s president. While Maduro has been in power, the...

Caleb Cloud Democratic backsliding is best understood as the opposite of democratization or the loss of democratic institutions. This is...