by Ava Bissot | Jan 8, 2026 | University of Pittsburgh
In May of 2024, thousands of Georgians filled the streets of the capital city, Tbilisi, chanting for the country to abandon “Kremlin-style” law, as police fired water cannons and arrested protestors across the capital. The demonstrations were in response to a newly...
by Matthew Thiel | Nov 24, 2025 | University of Pittsburgh
Guatemala’s 2023 Presidential election sparked a democratic crisis in the country, as anti-corruption reformer Bernardo Arévalo’s rise to power and election brought political blowback from the incumbent power bloc. This threatened democratic norms and was only...
by Tom Huynh | Nov 20, 2023 | University of Memphis
The Democratic Erosion Project exist to help shed light on how democracy falls apart and ways to preserve it as the rise of authoritarian states spread across the democratic world. However in the context of the United States, stealth authoritarianism is an American...
by Alexandra Rego | Jul 25, 2022 | Dartmouth College
For nearly a century, Argentina has faced off with a unique brand of populism. Argentine populism, while originally celebrated for its mobilization of genuine people power, today poses a threat to liberal democracy with the erosion of civil society. Given the broad...
