by KEVIN ANDREW KENDALL | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Kenya’s politics are public, equal, and free. In 1991, the transformation from a single party to a multiparty democracy was one of the biggest changes within their country. Kenya went from having political instability to having a promising future of democracy...
by SAM (SAMUEL) GLICK | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Venezuela’s Plunging Democracy Over the span of twenty years, democracy in Latin America has eroded. Venezuela’s longstanding democracy is on the brink of destruction after Nicolás Maduro took over following the death of former president Hugo Chávez in 2013. In recent...
by Celina Avalos | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
In a time where rights, freedom, and democracy are being threatened across Western democracies, it’s imperative to ask the question: why are democracies failing? However, in focusing on the Democracies of the West – the developing nations – we remain silent on the...
by ISABELLE VICTORIA MCGREW | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
A managed democracy, as the Putinists would practice it, is not a true democracy. As the demonstrations have continued, it is clear that Russians themselves agree that this political system is not an acceptable approach to democracy – and a true democracy is what...
by HANNAH CATHERINE KIM | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
SOUTH KOREA’S 2017 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND FOREIGN THREATS: IS DEMOCRACY IN DANGER? BY HANNAH KIM @ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES South Korea has experienced subjugation at the hands of various authoritarian governments since its formal establishment...
