A Not So Secret Ballot? By: Jackson A. Jimenez @University of Louisiana
Are digital voter files undermining free and fair elections in the United States? Could the United States’ democratic electoral...
Universities
Silent vs. Screaming: How Millennials are Giving Up Privacy while the Silent Generation Hangs On by Molly Simpson @ University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Pippa Norris’s article Is Western Democracy Backsliding? Diagnosing the Risks analyzes period, life-cycle, and generation effects in...
Reaching a Compromise on Gun Safety by Matthew Mottet @ Georgia State University
As of October 2018, there have been 47,225 gun-related incidents in the United States, with 11,984 of those incidents resulting in death. The...
The Ultimate Fight: U.S.A. vs Populism by Kaylan Anderson @University of Louisiana at Lafayette
In the United States some people may feel that having elected Donald Trump as president has contributed to the increase of populism. Citizens...
The Viségrad Group: The New Illiberal Democratic Bloc by Kameron Williams @ University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The fall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union brought hope that the newly liberated Central and Eastern European countries would...
Speech into Action: Do Social Media Companies have an Obligation to Curtail Hate Groups? By Zach Hopkins @ Georgia State University
We live in a world where democracy seems to be wavering and polarization intensifying with each passing moment. What role do large social media...
The Caravan of Asylum Seekers by Julie Martinez @ Georgia State University
The United States and Mexico are being faced with a serious immigration problem from the Central Americans seeking asylum. Most of the people...
Is President Donald Trump Going To Damage American Democracy? by Marvin R. Johnson
Levitsky and Ziblatt present what appears to be a transparent strategy to protect a democracy. We the people, and actors in appointed positions...