Missouri’s Master Manipulators Amending Election Results, Again by Paige Cook
When discussing democracy, it is often referred to in the national or international sense, more specifically, in the notion of an entire...
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Town Halls and Cooperation by Brett Jones
Often when we talk about the democratic processes in this country, most discussion dissects politics at the national or international level....
Xi’s China or Chinese Xi: Critical Evaluations of Charisma among Chinese Leaderships by Zitian Sun
Did Chinese Constitution Revision Make Xi A Dictator? On March 11, 2018, a CNN reporter, Matt Rivers, called the latest Chinese...
Can Reversion and Retrogression Work Together to Topple a Democracy?: Ortega’s Nicaragua by Riham Amin
When Daniel Ortega won his first term of presidency in 1984, he...
The Politicization of the Cabinet and Agencies: How Trump’s Appointments Bypass Democracy by Michael Caulfield
During Trump’s presidency, the appointments that he has made have been considered suspect at best. As opposed to the appointment of those...
The Age of Outrage by Charles Mahoney
The stability of our democracy is contingent not only on the legal safe guards outlined in the constitution, but on the maintenance of a...
Response to “Donald Trump: Challenging Democratic Norms, or Changing Democratic Norms?” by CKelly
In the blog post by Taylor Williams of Saint Louis University, she addresses Donald Trump’s usage of executive power to declare a “national...
Why Too Many Democratic Candidates Will Give President Trump a Second Term by Collin Swords
In 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2,864,903 votes. Yet, on January 20, 2017, President Trump was sworn into...
The Threat of Presidential Pardoning Power on Democracy by Evangelina Wong
The President’s power to pardon is particularly important when considering whether the President has the ability to excuse his own wrongdoing and...