University of Chicago

Populism in France: a threat to the European Union?

May 26th marks the day of the European elections and in France, tensions are at a boiling point. On the front-lines of Europe’s battle against...

Warsaw Pride 2015 (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) (The Associated Press) Jan-Werner Müller distinguishes populism from...

While the global ascendance of insurgent anti-establishment political forces and the consequent threats to democratic norms have been widely...

Around a week ago, Terry Gou, the billionaire Taiwanese CEO of Foxconn launched his bid for Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election (1). To many,...

In 2018, for the first time in the 46 years that Freedom House's global study of political freedom has been conducted, the United States failed...

What is the Pacific Solution? Since 2012, the Australian government has been intercepting the refugees and asylum seekers who attempt to arrive...

One of the main purposes of a constitution is providing a structure or framework for governance in a country. Constitutions are meant...

A successful representative democracy is dependent on the expression of the citizens’ interests and views in society through “popular...

“It is now clear that social media and intensely partisan television and radio broadcasts disseminated a massive number of messages during the...