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Ongoing Democratic Erosion in Brazil After Bolsonaro

Brazil’s democracy, as of recent years, has faced significant erosion as a result of former president Jair Bolsonaro’s actions as a semi-loyalist...

Most people who have been keeping up with American politics over the past few years are familiar with Donald Trump’s creative language for his...

Japan has long been regarded as a consolidated parliamentary democracy since the post–World War II constitutional reforms, a status reaffirmed by...

Orbán and the Courts: Why Hungary’s Democracy Is at Risk Is Hungary’s Democracy Still Alive? If you’ve been following European politics, you...

In the past year, Tanzania has been dealing with tensions surrounding their presidential election in October. There have been claims of election...

Are We Still Living in a WEIRD World? In the last decade, the world has witnessed a growing instability of democratic institutions in countries...

In our assigned reading by Olán Varol, he describes his theory of “stealth authoritarianism” as a way that “the new generation of authoritarians...

Since its creation in 1914, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) has managed and coordinated a rotating press pool that is allotted...

Access to public broadcasting and media freedom are essential pillars of a functioning democracy, not only as information outlets for the...