Repealing Net Neutrality Reduces Freedom of Speech by Ronald Schaming @ University of Memphis
December 14, 2017: Federal Communications Commission voted to allow the creation of ‘Internet Fast-Lanes’ by repealing Obama Administration Net...
Universities
Oscillating Factor of Middle Class in Democracy by Santosh K. Digal @ University of the Philippines, Diliman
Every society has some form of inequality. The trajectory of class based on the economy is complex. One of the ways of inequality is said to be...
Losing the Liberation? Democratic Erosion in South Africa by Wabantu Hlophe @ Yale University
Since the transition to full democracy in 1994, South Africa has experienced limited democratic erosion, driven by extreme racial inequality,...
From Poster Child of Liberalism to “Illiberal State”: Viktor Orban and the Fall of Hungarian Democracy by Christopher Taylor @ Yale University
On July 30, 2014, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban boldly declared that “the new state we are constructing in Hungary is an illiberal...
Populism resurgent? Evaluating the rise of American populism through the 2018 GOP Race for Connecticut Governor by Christopher Taylor @ Yale University
On February 21, 2018, three hundred people crowded into a high school auditorium in West Haven, Connecticut to hear a debate between the eight...
Duterte’s Socialism to Rescue Lumad’s Plight? by Michelle Sto. Tomas @ University of the Philippines, Diliman
The never ending cry for justice of the indigenous tribes in Mindanao, Philippines prompted the current government through a summit held February...
Voter Participation (Or Lack Thereof) and Democratic Erosion in Switzerland, by Valentina Wakeman at Yale University
Freedom House has given exceptional democracy ratings to the Swiss Confederation, awarding it near-perfect scores in overall freedom, political...
Senator Strangelove, or: How Democrats Learned to Love the Bomb by Sam Sharman @ Georgia State University
Over the past year, media criticism regarding violations of political norms has centered on President Trump and Congressional Republicans. To be...
Protests Do Nothing to Stop Violence Against Ukraine Journalists by Chelsea Bartley @ University of Memphis
In 2000, only four years after Ukraine adopted the Constitution that protected the rights of the press, a scandal broke out. Known as “tapegate”,...