Trade Disputes Weaken More than Alliances
Can a weakened market weaken the foundation of democracy? The strength of democracy is in the people, but if the people loose faith in democracy...
Universities
The Trouble in North Carolina
How anti-democratic measures are eroding democratic norms in North Carolina In the book How Democracies Die, Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky...
The World’s Biggest Democracy in an Undemocratic Light
India, the world’s biggest democratic government, is facing serious challenges to its democracy. To the North, in Kashmir, civil strife is...
Netanyahu: Pushing the Limits of Democracy
The September 2019 parliamentary elections in Israel raise concern about the future of democracy in the country. The Blue and White party,...
The 2019 elections in Israel: Evidence of democratic backsliding?
On May, 9, 2019, elections to the Israeli parliament—the Knesset—were once again conducted. By and large, as on all previous occasions, they were...
Rhetoric, democratic backsliding, and Netanyahu’s 2019 election campaign by Tal Been
An election campaign is of great importance to a country’s political culture, affording an opportunity to examine the behavior of political...
The 2019 elections and the boundaries of the political space by Tally Keigen and Noa Shemesh
One of the most fundamental values in a democracy is the right of political participation, derived the right to vote and be elected. The “paradox...
The exclusion of the Arab minority by Daniel Padon
The 2019 elections shed light on the schism between Israel’s Jewish majority and its Arab citizens, who constitute roughly 16% of all eligible...
The case of Democratic Erosion in the Ivory Coast
The Ivory Coast under the 1998 regime of president Bédié reflects the effects of democratic erosion as described by both Bermeo and Levitsky and...