by Rachel Funk | Apr 18, 2019 | Utah State University
Despite its apparent incongruence with representative democracy, direct democracy remains a salient feature of many representative democracies worldwide. The menu of referenda, plebiscites, town meetings, recall elections, and initiatives that make up direct...
by Hoang Nguyen | Apr 12, 2019 | Suffolk University
Foreign aid: a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries _Dean Acheson_ The issues of foreign aid have always involved in corruption and inefficiency since the beginning. However, foreign aid did have a strong impact on the...
by Paige Cook | Apr 4, 2019 | Saint Louis University
Tunisia was the first of all the Arab states to experience popular uprisings and political upheaval in 2011. In fact, it was the initial domino to the Arab uprisings. On December 17, 2010 a young vegetable merchant, Bouazizi was repeatedly harassed by police demanding...
by Caleb Logan | Apr 2, 2019 | Saint Louis University
Grounding Opponents On March 28, 2019, François Boko, a former interior minister of Togo who has been in exile in France since 2005, was prevented from boarding an Air France flight headed for Togo’s capital city, Lomé. The Togolese Ministry of Immigration...
by Katrina Ramkissoon | Mar 11, 2019 | Suffolk University
Can a country who has only had democracy for less than three decades already begin facing democratic backsliding? Unfortunately, yes. This is the case for the African country Namibia which just became a semi presidential representative democracy in 1990. Namibia...
