by Christian Santiago | Mar 31, 2019 | Rollins College
A response to “How a Strange Massachusetts Election Helps Explain Britain’s Brexit Chaos” by Max Fisher (NYT) The recent events surrounding Britain’s controversial Brexit referendums has highlighted a major source of democratic erosion in today’s struggling...
by Raj Singh | Mar 31, 2019 | Rollins College
When looking at daily news, a few topics have been constantly appearing in the last two years. The most frequent of them all: the Brexit Referendum and its fallout in the British parliament. It isconcerned with the legitimacy of the results of voting and how to...
by Matt Willis | Mar 31, 2019 | Rollins College
In his article, Max Fisher of the New York Times describes an intriguing conundrum in the democratic process, and two parallel cases that expose it. At the forefront is a recall election in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts, in which a mayor prosecuted for fraud...
by Ej Broker | Mar 26, 2019 | Rollins College
Democracy By Coincidence Referenda and recalls are some of the seemingly democratic solutions to the failures of the electoral system or the representatives within it. In the former, the citizenry is directly involved in the legislative decisions of a nation’s...
