Utah State University

Government Shutdowns, Public Opinion, and “Near Misses”

A few months ago, the United States experienced its longest government shutdown in history. Shutting down for 34 days starting December 2019, the...

Since regaining its democracy in 1999, Nigeria has suffered a history of voter fraud and violence in each of its presidential elections....

Despite its apparent incongruence with representative democracy, direct democracy remains a salient feature of many representative democracies...

The first protest against a fuel tax was on November 16th, 2018—at that time no one could have imagined that it would have ballooned into the...

The Uighurs are an ethnic minority group in China that speaks a different language and are generally unique in their cultural practices from the...

Denouncing reporter's statements as “fake news”, moving the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, pulling out of the Paris Accords, a...

Is Prime Minister Shizno Abe leading Japan towards a more authoritarian identity? This might seem like a strange question, as Japan has been...

As local media disappears there is void of answers to the question, what will take its place. The ability of citizens to check the government has...

The recent stand-off in Venezuela between the authoritarian Maduro regime and the opposition movement has sparked discussion about whether or not...