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...
by KISHAN JAYESH PATEL | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Populist leaders have recently been on the rise and have been everywhere in certain events of political history. Populist leaders seek political hegemony with an anti elitist mentality that legitimize their identity to the will of the people. In the United States’...
by BLAKE CHRISTIAN KAZARIAN | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
In a historic vote, China’s legislative body, the National People’s Congress, voted to get rid of presidential term limits. The vote took place in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People and resulted in a vote with 2,958 in favor and 2 against. This shows...
by HANNAH CATHERINE KIM | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
SOUTH KOREA’S 2017 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND FOREIGN THREATS: IS DEMOCRACY IN DANGER? BY HANNAH KIM @ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES South Korea has experienced subjugation at the hands of various authoritarian governments since its formal establishment...
