Pippa Norris’s article Is Western Democracy Backsliding? Diagnosing the Risks analyzes period, life-cycle, and generation effects in...
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...
In the United States some people may feel that having elected Donald Trump as president has contributed to the increase of populism. Citizens...
The fall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union brought hope that the newly liberated Central and Eastern European countries would...
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 United States and Mexico are being faced with a serious immigration problem from the Central Americans seeking asylum. Most of the people...
Levitsky and Ziblatt present what appears to be a transparent strategy to protect a democracy. We the people, and actors in appointed positions...
Trump makes a bad populist leader because he has no real intention of helping the common man, and must maintain this facade in ways that test the...