by Emily Harris | May 4, 2021 | Ursinus College
Political polarization is a phenomenon beginning to affect political cooperation and compromise in old and new democracies. What is causing an increase in polarization has been previously attributed by political scholars to identity-based sorting, the absence of...
by Emelyn Rodriguez | Apr 16, 2021 | Ursinus College
The first Caribbean nation to earn independence is now struggling to preserve democracy. While the opposition screams for change, the president demands a longer term. During his five-year presidential term, the Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has declared war on the...
by Sarah Saintius | Apr 4, 2021 | Georgia State University
Protests in Haiti, 2020. Haiti has long been in a state of revolt, as far back as the colonial age. Since Haiti declared independence in 1804, the country has had no luck in maintaining a stable democracy. From funding militias of slave masters to embargoes from...
by Uros Ciric | Mar 31, 2021 | Georgia State University
In January of 2020, outgoing Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who had just lost a reelection campaign, was asked a question about Croatia’s corruption problem. The president pointed a finger at schools in Croatia saying, “Corruption is embedded in Croatian...
by Cetin Cetiner | Jan 15, 2021 | Koç University
Picture: Left to right; Matovic, Caputova, Fico. Retrieved from https://dam.nmhmedia.sk/image/3d7bd6a9-0365-4bef-969b-92c96faae26d_phpzrlvlq.jpg/1200/630 Slovakian democracy is young and has recent roots coming from the struggle of the 1989 revolution against the...