University of Chicago

Running Against Populism, by Ronen Schatsky

Democrats are lining up to run against President Trump, and they will be confronting a unique challenge. Not only are they running against an...

The term “populism” has seemingly oversaturated the American political vocabulary overnight. And yet, populist movements have defined the world...

In the article, “How Democracies Fall Apart,” Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz name various populist leaders that have come to power since...

Amidst the Arab Spring Movement in 2011, Egypt was one of several in the region to successfully overthrow their government, igniting inspiration...

This piece argues against Francis Fukuyama's famous piece "The End of History". In February 1989 at the University of Chicago in room 122 of the...

In Chapter 2 of "What Is Populism?", Jan-Werner Müller takes to task the concept of how a populist in power operates, mainly deconstructing the...

Nancy Bermeo, in her 2016 paper “On Democratic Backsliding,” describes the transition of “the classic open-ended coups d’état of the Cold War...

Democratic peace theory, one of the closest semblances to an empirical law in international relations, espouses quite simply that democracies are...

Over the past two decades, Romania has enacted several democratizing reforms, including founding the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA),...