by Mateo Garcia | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In 2016, a man with no political experience and little political support was elected president of the United States. Previously, no president had been elected without a background in government or the military. How was Donald Trump able to be elected? His mastery of...
by Cole Pillar | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
According to James Carey, “without journalism there is no democracy, but without democracy there is no journalism either.” In other words, the ability of journalism to inform citizens of a democracy, or the ability of journalism to act as a Fourth Estate, is...
by Hazel Martello | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
The 25th amendment, allows for a sitting President’s powers to be suspended if they become unfit for office. Section 4, which can suspend Presidential power without the sitting President’s consent, has never been invoked. Section 4 has always been interpreted as...
by Marissa Linn | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In his 1959 book “Some Social Requisites of Democracy,” American sociologist and democratic theorist Seymour Lipset advanced a model of what made certain democracies stable and others unstable. He argued that two factors determine the stability of a democracy: their...
by S K | Oct 20, 2020 | Williams College
What does it mean when everyone already knows the results of an election months, or even years, before it occurs? The citizens of Cameroon, a country in Central Africa, expect the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) to win elections despite...
