by Max Tewksbury | Dec 8, 2019 | Georgia State University
Throughout history, democracies have worked and fallen. Venezuela and North Korea are examples of this. Great Britain gained control of Hong Kong on January 25, 1841, and maintained Hong Kong until 1997. Britain transfers Hong Kong back to China with the condition...
by Christofer Beaudry | Oct 17, 2019 | Salem State University
The pressing political issues of today raise important political questions regarding the value of democratic decisions. Following the most recent Democratic Party debate, the right-side of the internet broke out their “Come And Take It” flags, donned their Hawaiian...
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...
