by Seohyun Lee | Apr 19, 2026 | George Mason University
Elections Without Democracy: The Case of Thailand In 2023, the people of Thailand chose change. The Move Forward Party, which carried a progressive platform, won the election by a landslide. But shortly after, the party was forcibly dissolved by the court.The...
by Robert Wilson | Apr 11, 2020 | American University
Amidst the onset of an economic recession in 2008, the Wall Street Journal quoted former Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emmanual with his now-infamous phrase, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” While certainly not his intention, Emmanual’s quote underscores...
by Ryan Stolz | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
Within the past few days, Serbia has been downgraded by democracy watchdog Freedom House from a “free” country to a “partly free” country. This decision by Freedom House is no surprise as Serbia and populist President Aleksander Vucic has appeared increasingly...
by FLOR ARIDEY FIGUEROA | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
In the wake of the elections in Hungary, there are one of two things that could happen. Viktor Orban could win his third consecutive term as prime minister, continuing his reign of diminishing Democracy, or he could lose and the fate of Hungary would be in the hands...
by ISAIAH JAMES HOLMES | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
The crisis in Burundi started in April of 2015 when the President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, decided to stand for a third term in office. The problem that everyone had with him standing for a third term is that in their constitution mandates that a president can...
