by Kaan Akcay | Apr 28, 2020 | Bilkent University
The coronavirus outbreak raises some interesting questions for the social scientists and the general public. Most importantly, why are some countries more successful than the others? Differentiation between the success of the countries against the outbreak creates an...
by Austin Jones | Apr 2, 2020 | University of Memphis
The seat of government for an entire city considering the passage or failure of new ideas in a meeting that is open to the public…has an audience of 12-15 citizens? Sounds crazy, but it is true. To give even more context, only a few members of the audience, myself...
by Andrea Gustafson | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
While the polarization of modern American politics was displayed in the nearly partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump, the current democratic primary race to decide who will face Trump in the 2020 elections demonstrates just how extreme American polarization...
by Isaac Schneider | Feb 11, 2020 | Boston University
I am an American citizen, white, straight and male. All of these factors would, by any metric, make me more predisposed to expressing my political values through a generally more conservative lens. Notwithstanding these attributes, my core political values skew...
by Michael De Dios | Dec 11, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
For years, there have been successful attempts to erode a democracy. In Argentina, Juan Peron helped lead a successful coup for two and a half years before making his bid for presidency. Augusto Pinochet, Commander-in-chief of the Chilean army, led a coup d’état in...
