Terrorist Candidates Are Eroding Pakistan’s Democracy
Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 states that individuals who claim to belong to terrorist groups and create terror in the state must be...
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Taiwan’s Democracy Is Under Chinese Threat
In celebration of Pride Month. This is a crossing in Wanhua District painted with rainbow colors.Photo Taken Here:...
Rwanda’s Constitutional Amendment: Can Democratic Backsliding Bring about Positive Change to Catalyse Democracy in the Long Run?
Democracy has struggled to take hold in Africa, partly due its lack of economic development amongst other factors. The failure of democracy to...
From a Covid Crisis to a Vaccine Crisis: The Case in Iran
There is clear cut evidence, both in reports on democracy and through empirical evidence from around the globe, that the trend of the world is in...
The Most Fraudulent Election in the History of Uganda
Since the 17th century, elections have represented a necessary condition for the legitimate functioning of representative democracies....
Institutional Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy
The pandemic has led governments around the world to consider emergency measures to contain the virus, safeguard human health and...
Social Media Bans in Iran
On January 15, 2021, a popular messaging app called Signal, crashed globally. After WhatsApp altered its privacy agreement to share its data with...
Saudi Government Social Media Manipulation
Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist and Saudi regime critic, was murdered on October 2nd, 2018 by the Saudi Arabian government inside a Turkish...
Zombieland: The Case of Declining Institutional Independence in Turkey
There exist various methods of asserting control over a state. In Turkey, it involves what I call “zombification”. Ahval’s Yavuz Baydar in 2018...