by Hyesung Shin | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
If citizens remove an authoritarian-leaning government through the democratic process of voting, is that the start of democratic recovery? If your answer is “yes,” Zambia might make you think again. Zambia shows that winning democracy back at the ballot box is easier...
by Khevin Feliciano | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
Democracy has been struggling to find a foothold in the Philippines for over a century. A political system with democratic qualities coexists alongside a deeply entrenched oligarchy of political families. Since Spanish colonial times, families of elites have been...
by Ji Kang Park | Oct 16, 2026 | George Mason University
Moldova is an interesting case of a country stuck between two major orientations. It has been tied with Moscow for centuries, getting colonized by the Russian Empire, and being a part of the Soviet Union up to 1991. Even after its independence, Moldova continued to be...
by Yeowon Jung | Oct 16, 2026 | George Mason University
When people think about how democracy dies, they often imagine violent military coups. However, in the modern world, democracy usually dies slowly, legally, and from within. Tunisia was once celebrated as the sole success story of the 2011 Arab Spring. ...
by Keti Bardhoshi | Oct 9, 2026 | Boston University
There has been a lot of commotion in the last years about the instability of liberal democracies, and particularly established democracies which have made a considerable amount of people question their validity and efficacy. A particularly interesting example of this...
