by Ben-Ari Boukai | May 7, 2019 | Georgetown University
Could terror attacks lead to a roll-back of recent Democratic strengthening in Sri Lanka? Time will tell. On Easter morning, April 21, the world watched as Sri Lanka fell victim to a series of coordinated terror attacks across three cities. The eventual death toll...
by Kenneth Coleman | May 5, 2019 | University of Chicago
In Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Acemoglu and Robinson present the role of the middle class in the formation and continuity of democracy. Since democracy forms as a “response to a serious revolutionary threat or significant social...
by Ruth Selipsky | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
Over the past two decades, Romania has enacted several democratizing reforms, including founding the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), repealing defamation laws, and finally joining the European Union in 2007. Under the current administration, however, the...
by Warren Epstein | Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Difference between Scandal and Democratic Backsliding. Trudeau’s SNC-Lavalin scandal while undermining the rule of the law is not sufficient to claim that Canada is experiencing Democratic Backsliding. In his introduction to “Stealth Authoritarianism,” Ozan...
by Sheridon Evans | Apr 19, 2019 | Sacramento State University
Intro to Kenyan Politics In the nation of Kenya, as with most post-colonial African nations, democracy has not been around for a long time. Also, for virtually every African nation scarred by colonialism, the ethnic groups that exist in modern borders could very well...
