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Democratic Erosion in India: Modi Leads the Country Into a More Polarized Society

Narendra Modi’s time as Prime Minister of India has been watched closely by the world as escalations have heightened with Pakistan in recent...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/texas-voter-suppression.html Civic Engagement I joined the JFK library's conference about the 19th...

While ostensibly a positive effort against corruption, the voluntary banning of pork-barrel spending has contributed to the erosion of American...

Incentives are everything. Since its founding in 1993, the European Union (EU) has understood this and become a master of soft power pressure and...

This past week, The United States underwent one of the most tense elections in our history. The probability of violence with the victory of...

(AP Photo/Juan Karita) After nearly a year in exile, former President Evo Morales returned to Bolivia on November 9th to a crowd of adoring...

Scholars of political science who study the phenomenon of democratic erosion often analyze the relationship of it with polarization. While there...

In the grand scheme of checks and balances on authoritarian tendencies, the media ideally plays an impartial role as a guardrail against...

The core of populism is in creating an image of the people and representing them to justify political power. [1] It is based on a myth as “the...