by Andrew Chen | Apr 15, 2026 | Boston University
Recently, India has been experiencing some forms of democratic backsliding. According to Nancy Bermeo’s “On Democratic Backsliding”, she depicts democratic backsliding as “the weakening and disassembling of a given set of democratic institutions”. Democratic...
by Will Speight | Apr 12, 2026 | Boston University
Hungary’s 21st century shift from liberal democracy into a “hybrid regime” – or a competitive authoritarianist state, as the phenomenon is also sometimes known – has been well-studied and quite heavily maligned by political science thinkers while it has been...
by Devin Golden | Apr 3, 2026 | Suffolk University
With the release of the most recent V-Dem report on world democracy, the US has reached a 60-year low dropping all the way back to levels before the civil rights era. This has been labeled as the single most dramatic decline of democracy in the world. The rate at...
by Madelyn Stuart | Mar 30, 2026 | Uncategorized, University of Houston
A core component of democracy is representation through free and fair elections. Free and fair can be defined by who qualifies to vote and then by the actual ability of that group to vote. The SAVE Act, which presents stricter voter ID laws, with the intention of...
by Nancybella Rago | Mar 29, 2026 | Suffolk University
An “anti-compromise” mindset from populist politicians continues to hinder negotiation between Democrats and the White House. On February 14, 2026 a partial government shutdown centered on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began, surrounding the Trump...
