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...
by KATRINA SAYA WEBB | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
When Myanmar began its transition to democracy in 2010, it signaled a new hope for democracy in the developing world. Once thought impossible, the release of long-time opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest was thought to be the beginning of the end of...
by DANIELLE SHERI WILKERSON | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
At face value the regimes which have followed The New Order have done an outstanding job at creating a state in which democracy is at the center. Upon a closer look, there are some red flags which should signal to the rest of the world that Indonesia’s democracy may...
by ISABELLA GRACE GUERRA | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
This past Sunday China’s National People’s Congress voted in an overwhelmingly majority to abolish its presidential term limits, allowing China’s current presidential leader, Xi Jinping, to remain in power indefinitely. This newly added amendment would be altering the...
