NICARAGUA’S BACKSLIDING DEMOCRACY BY HANNAH FRANCES C. BODEGON@UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, DILIMAN
Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) played a key role in topping down the Somoza dictatorship in 1979. Through a...
Universities
Is Europe’s Migrant Crisis a Potential Threat to Finnish Democracy? By Abby Nutter @ The Ohio State University
By many quantitative measures, Finnish democracy is in seemingly great shape. But while this European nation outwardly sets inspirational...
Ghana’s Biometric Voter Register Fights Voter Fraud Without Harming Elections by Thomas Baumgarten @ Ohio State University
After achieving independence on March 6th, 1957 and finally establishing a multiparty democracy in 1992[1], Ghana appears to be on the right...
Trusting the Austrian System by Ron Fornaro @ Ohio State University
Intro On Monday, March 12th, 2018 an Austrian court struck down a law that would have taken away the rights of refugees and other migrant groups...
Political Strife Over “President for Life:” Bolivia’s Outcry Over Morales’ Fourth Term By Cassandra Dula @ The Ohio State University
Despite the results of a referendum held in 2016, Bolivian President Evo Morales has decided to try and run for a fourth term in 2019. As of...
Displaced Puerto Rican Students in CT by Valeria Menendez @ Yale University.
According to the Connecticut State Department of Education, there were 1,745 displaced students from Puerto Rico in Connecticut schools as of...
Municipal Government in New Haven by Wabantu Hlophe @ Yale University
When trying to understand what drives democratic erosion, complacency by politicians at the grassroots is often ignored; a worrisome omission, to...
The Dynamics of the New Haven Board of Alders, by Valentina Wakeman @ Yale University
On February 20th, I attended the New Haven Board of Alders meeting, which meets publicly every month. New Haven has a Board of 30 Alders, each...
Duterte’s Continuing Paranoia and the Erosion of Philippine Democracy by Patricia Villa @ University of the Philippines, Diliman
President Rodrigo Duterte’s paranoia may just be an ingredient to the brewing erosion of democracy in the Philippines and it is time that we...