The Far-Right Returns to Germany
Since World War II, no far-right nationalist movement leaders have held any seats in the German parliament, but this changed during the 2017...
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Democratic Backsliding in Colombia
Colombia’s democracy has been on a decline for quite some time now. Evidence of democratic backsliding can be seen through acts of violence...
Potential Polexit: Will It Happen And Does It Risk Worsening Democratic Erosion in Poland?
Setting The Scene Poland is one of the few post-communist states which was able to gain EU membership, but ongoing undemocratic practices within...
Venezuela’s 2018 Presidential Election Shows Signs of Democratic Backsliding
After the death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez in 2013, Nicholás Maduro became the country’s president. While Maduro has been in power, the...
Early Signs of Democratic Backsliding in Relation to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Caleb Cloud Democratic backsliding is best understood as the opposite of democratization or the loss of democratic institutions. This is...
Stealth Authoritarianism for Georgia Voters
By Humayra Bramblett When defining democracy, the right to vote can be considered one of its key features. Yet in the past decade, the right to...
Chileans Have Lived Under the Shadow of a Dictator for 40 Years
Now they are changing that by rewriting their constitution In 1973, a military junta lead by General Augusto Pinochet took power in Chile by...
Is Populism Thriving during the Pandemic?
Muntaha Syedah Qadri For the past year and a half, the pandemic caused chaos to occur. The pandemic invoked a serious level of stress on everyone...
Viktor Orbán’s Consolidation of Power in Hungary
Hungary joined the EU in 2004, but only six years later, Viktor Orbán came into power, and Hungary’s democratic institutions began to unravel....