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Voting Rights vs. Indigenous Self-Determination in New Caledonia

In 2024, President Macron proposed an expansion of voting rights in the French sui generis collectivity of New Caledonia, a cluster of islands in...

Coups are supposed to be considered as the fastest way to erode a democracy. Soldiers seize power and elections disappear. But sometimes the coup...

In July 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officially shut down. The move had been one of the first major...

Both the United States and Israel have powerful judiciaries which have accorded themselves the authority to strike down government actions...

Put frankly, yes, Mexico is still a democracy in an important sense. Citizens vote, opposition parties compete, and political power changes...

A criminal investigation of a powerful official doesn’t seem like democratic erosion. Equal application of the law is a central democratic...

In 2017, Weitz-Shapiro and Winters conducted research on information credibility in Brazil, finding that citizens unilaterally punished corrupt...

In February, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu used Article 49.3 of the Constitution to forcibly pass the 2026 state budget. Earlier this...

In September of 2026, three states in Germany, including Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, held state elections, the...