Venezuela’s Spirit of Democracy Ended before Chavez and Maduro by Rachel Dinh-Lopez
Long before the rule of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, the democracy that began with President Betancourt began to erode. During this time...
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Sri Lanka Terror Attacks: Watching for Democratic Recession by Ben-Ari Boukai
Could terror attacks lead to a roll-back of recent Democratic strengthening in Sri Lanka? Time will tell. On Easter morning, April 21, the world...
Media as the Gatekeepers of Democracy by Annika Hildebrandt
In their work on democratic erosion, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt point to the importance...
Lifting The Largest Democracy
India is the world’s largest democracy with 1.3 billion people, and 900 million registered voters. With so many people, how do they manage to...
The one who laughs first laughs best. The Muller report and Barr’s letter.
After years of investigations, the special counsel Robert Muller send his written report on conspiracy and obstruction to William Barr on March...
The Right to and Danger of Appointing Supreme Court Justices by Noa Levin
On June 27, 2018, now-former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announcedthat he would be retiring from his position at the Supreme...
The difficult path to democratic rule by Kiara Echavarria
In Sudan since the outing of president Omar al-Bashir there has been riots of concerned citizens of Sudan to make a change into the...
The Source of Fake News: Politicians or Populace? by Renee Colby
In 2018, social scientists Oscar Barrera, Sergei Guriev, Emeric Henry, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya conducted an experiment where subjects were...
Democratic Backsliding via an Eroding Middle Class by Kenneth Coleman
In Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Acemoglu and Robinson present the role of the middle class in the formation and continuity of...