by Anna Lichtenberg | Oct 23, 2026 | Brown University
Social media hurts American Democracy. As Waldner and Lust describe, democracy relies on two forms of accountability to function. One is vertical accountability, meaning that citizens can hold officials accountable through elections, which pressures representatives to...
by Mitsuki Jiang | Oct 23, 2026 | Brown University
In July 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officially shut down. The move had been one of the first major actions taken by the Trump administration in his second term and terminated 80 percent of USAID’s thousands of programs. Prior...
by Abigail Orozco-Hugo | Oct 23, 2026 | Brown University
Put frankly, yes, Mexico is still a democracy in an important sense. Citizens vote, opposition parties compete, and political power changes hands. In June 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum won the presidency with nearly 60 percent of the vote. But beneath the ballot box, while...
by Taeeun Kim | Oct 19, 2026 | George Mason University
Most people when they hear the word democracy think of elections. Indonesia appears to demonstrate just that. Since the beginning of Suharto’s authoritarian rule ended in 1998, Indonesia has experienced peaceful transition of power through elections that are...
by Yeyoon Kim | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
Many countries with high levels of democracy are also wealthy. This suggests that economic development and democracy are closely related. However, economic growth does not automatically lead to democracy. China, for example, has grown rapidly, but it is still not a...
