Austrian Democracy is Safe – For Now by Lindsey Powell @ University of Pennsylvania
On March 12th, Austrian citizens and political elites gathered at Heldenplatz, the public courtyard in front of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace. The date...
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Is Poland Facing Democratic Backsliding? by Kensharra Davis @UCLA
Is Poland Facing Democratic Backsliding? “Free courts, free elections, and free Poland,” are the words that many people chant as they...
Kenya’s Presidential Election: A Troubling Sign for Democracy by Frances Strnad @ University of California, Los Angeles
This past fall, Kenyans voted for a new president. The election, which was supposed to be one of the most democratic elections the country has...
Is Democracy In Canada Really Eroding? by Damian Glover @ University of California Los Angeles
Is Democracy in the "Most Friendly Nation in the World" Eroding? The simple answer to the question is no. In America there is a constant fight...
Erdogan’s Empire: A Case Study of democratic backsliding in Turkey by Jacob Awrabi @ University of California, Los Angeles
When examining democratic erosion, a prime example of a brief case study is that of Turkey. Through an array of authoritarian tactics,...
A Nail in Ataturk’s Coffin by Shravan Balaji @ University of Pennsylvania
On April 16, 2017, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) celebrated the passage of their landmark...
Democratic Erosion From Brexit by Kenneth Rollins @ University of California, Los Angeles
The United Kingdom shocked the world in the summer of 2016 when they decided to leave the European Union, commonly known as Brexit. This event...
Erosion of Democracy from Catalonia: Is this the beginning of the end for a democratic solution to the Catalan Crisis? by Cole Kinder @ University of California, Los Angeles
We like to think of Western European nations and the European Union as entities that uphold the fundamental rights of humanity and democracy. We...
Poland Democratic Erosion by Trevor Wolff @ University of California, Los Angeles
In December 2017, Polish president Andrzej Duda, “signed sweeping legislation…to overhaul the country’s judicial system”. This statement alone is...