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Does Spain’s Response to Catalonia Serve as Evidence of Democratic Breakdown?

On October 1, Spain responded to what they deemed an illegal referendum by employing police forces to stop individuals in the region of Catalonia...

Stealth Authoritarianism in Cambodia Overt authoritarianism has become extremely costly, prompting trade sanctions and other international...

In 1994, South Africa broke a wicked spell of white control, saying its last goodbye to a horrifically undemocratic apartheid political system....

The goal of any scientific inquiry is ostensibly to find or at least approximate some sort of truth. When we examine a phenomenon in the world,...

Following the election of Donald Trump, many of those who oppose him were, and still are, concerned about the future of democracy. The populist...

In his essay “Stealth Authoritarianism”, Ozan Varol argues that leaders can maintain the facade of democratic values and institutions, while...

Free speech, in any form of expression, has been a heavily contested topic this weekend in regards to the National Football League (NFL). It...

Stealth Authoritarianism, as expressed by Ozan Varol, refers to regime practices that make a country less democratic without outright violating...

More than half a century after being written, Hannah Arendt's hypotheses explaining the roots and contours of totalitarianism remain,...