by Ian Henson | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
Polarization is certainly a commonly cited cause of why the current governmental system and Congress seem to be unable to get anything substantial done. There are countless news stories about the subject with titles such as “Is America Hopelessly Polarized, or Just...
by Brieana Burke | May 5, 2019 | Georgia State University
Democracy was a damaged project in Latin America before the current crisis in Venezuela. Military coups d’état and other violent seizures of power in the 1960s and 1970s were followed by weak attempts at re-democratization (Riggirozzi, 2019). In the 1980s oil...
by Randolph Kent | May 3, 2019 | Georgetown University
In what could prove to be an enormous blunder, Juan Guaido, Venezuela’s opposition leader, launched a failed coup to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro three days ago. The attempted coup ignored how deeply the Venezuelan military elite is tied to the Maduro...
by Simon Machalek | May 2, 2019 | Georgetown University
The Visegrad Group, also known as V4 — a cultural and political alliance of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — used to be seen as a prime example of how countries with an authoritarian past could be drawn into the liberal and democratic Western style...
by Kayode Babatunde | Apr 28, 2019 | Georgia State University
How can the most compassionate and diverse largest bloc of voters in the United States be the least participant in a country that seems to be digressing from its roots? Based on common knowledge of the voting statistics in the United States, the millennials are by far...