New Regime, Age-Old Conflict: Legitimacy Pressure Pushes Post-Revolution Armenia into War
Armenia enters new fighting over an old dispute, and the fledgling democracy's pursuit of legitimacy is playing a role. Not only was legitimacy...
Universities
The Politicization of the Pandemic
Levitsky and Ziblatt write that ‘extreme polarization can kill democracies.’ [1] Polarization of politics in the US has left Americans not only...
Why Myanmar’s Upcoming “Democratic” Election Is a Case for Democratic Erosion
The National League of Democracy’s (NLD) landslide victory in Myanmar’s 2015 election seemingly marked a huge milestone for a country that had...
Loyalty Over Truth: The War Between Trump and U.S. Intelligence Agencies
On January 29, 2019, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and other intelligence agency leaders appeared before the Senate Intelligence...
As a Nation, We Must Reexamine and Reimagine Our Conceptions of Democracy and Justice
The America of today is ready to change her conceptions of Democracy and Justice for the future, but she must be cognizant of her history and...
Presidential Debates, Legitimate Opposition, and Democratic Erosion in the U.S.
Masks off. Insults exchanged. Microphones muted. The events of this year’s presidential debates have grabbed a significant portion of the US...
USPS Crisis as a Case of Stealth Authoritarianism
In the 2016 U.S Presidential election, approximately 33 million voters cast their ballots by mail, which accounted for one quarter of all ballots...
Wisconsin: A State Reflective of the United States’ Eroding Democracy
On April 7th, 2020, states all around the nation watched as the implosion of Wisconsin’s government occurred as there was a tug of war between a...
The Issue With Court Packing
Since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Congress and indeed the rest of the country has been grappling with how we should proceed in...