Emerging Technology and Eroding Democracy?
The rapid expansion of technology has, generally, been viewed as a positive development for global communication. Technological growth is...
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A Dangerous Game: Campaigning for The Expansion of Executive Power
The United States democracy has been upheld by the Constitution and within it the separation of powers. Those powers were created by the Framers...
How Religious Representation Erodes Democracy in Lebanon
After decades of sectarian rule, the people of Lebanon have had enough. Since the end of the First World War, and the beginning of the French...
Trump’s Authoritarian Tendencies and its Relation to Covid-19
With 330,891 current cases of Covid-19, this virus has affected people in every aspect of life from elections to employment. Trump has engaged in...
Democracy’s enemy within
The Economist August 31st 2019 Democracy’s enemy within Cynicism is gnawing at Western democracies Democracies are generally thought to die at...
Combatting Cynicism: The Great Threat to American Democracy
The United States has always been characterized by optimism and progress, embedded in our unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
Targeted Political Ads Aren’t the Only Thing Social Media Uses to Affect Politics
A response to “Policing Propaganda.“ The role of social media in politics came to the forefront during the 2016 United States presidential...
Social Media Manipulation: The Threat to Democracy and How to Correct it
In the Economist article, “Policing Propaganda,” one of the major threats to democracy stems from one of its key supporting agents, the news, or...
How digital politics regulation by lawmakers could affect democracy.
About a hundred years ago the invention of the telegraph not only facilitated long-distance communication but also did “a lot to...