Venezuela’s 2018 Presidential Election Shows Signs of Democratic Backsliding
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...
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Early Signs of Democratic Backsliding in Relation to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Caleb Cloud Democratic backsliding is best understood as the opposite of democratization or the loss of democratic institutions. This is...
Stealth Authoritarianism for Georgia Voters
By Humayra Bramblett When defining democracy, the right to vote can be considered one of its key features. Yet in the past decade, the right to...
Chileans Have Lived Under the Shadow of a Dictator for 40 Years
Now they are changing that by rewriting their constitution In 1973, a military junta lead by General Augusto Pinochet took power in Chile by...
Is Populism Thriving during the Pandemic?
Muntaha Syedah Qadri For the past year and a half, the pandemic caused chaos to occur. The pandemic invoked a serious level of stress on everyone...
Viktor Orbán’s Consolidation of Power in Hungary
Hungary joined the EU in 2004, but only six years later, Viktor Orbán came into power, and Hungary’s democratic institutions began to unravel....
Austria’s Teetering Democracy: Why the Far-Right Movement Is Not Going Away
When the Austrian Freedom Party was given a seat at the table of Austrian government and politics in 2000, the international community’s...
Authoritarian Reversion in Afghanistan
As Afghanistan has fallen back into the hands of the militant Taliban group, what does this mean for civil and political rights of people in the...
Electronic Voting Poses a New Threat to Russia’s Compromised Election Integrity
2021 Election Summary In September 2021, Russia held a three-day parliamentary election. The head of the Central Election...