by Woeser Dolma | Apr 11, 2018 | Skidmore College
Colonialism created the Philippines political system embedded on socio-economic elites whom profited from political positions. Historically, the Philippines political elites became corrupt because they had position of power over the rest of the population....
by Santosh Digal | Apr 7, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Every society has some form of inequality. The trajectory of class based on the economy is complex. One of the ways of inequality is said to be based on economy or purchasing power. The slabs for economic categories of people in a democracy or democratization do...
by Ethan Watson | Apr 2, 2018 | University of Memphis
Simply put yes, President Xi has formed a China into a “Frankenstate” in which his power is growing. On March 11th 2018, China’s legislative body, the National People’s Congress, voted to get rid of the presidential term limits specified in the...
by Ginger Li | Mar 29, 2018 | Yale University
Since 1955, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan has enjoyed near complete control of the Japanese government. It has only failed to hold a majority for four of the past sixty-three years.[1] This long-standing supremacy by one political party raises questions...
by John Ganger | Mar 23, 2018 | Ohio State University
In after an election in October of 2017, Kyrgyzstan’s former President Almazbek Atambayev peacefully ceded power to the newly elected President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, marking the first peaceful transition of power between two democratically elected leaders in all of...
