by Kimberly Brown | Jan 11, 2023 | Georgia State University Perimeter College
By: Kimberly Brown Georgia State University With political polarization levels being higher than ever seen, citizens are divided on almost every belief: except voting. The patterns I saw among young, old, minorities, and women all connected in one way, how much they...
by Emine Dikmen | Jan 6, 2023 | Sabanci University
Democracy has been specified as the fundamental reason for the long-unseen historical record of the reign of peace. Today, the world is experiencing a major threat to democracy after the third wave of democratization. This threat may occur in the form of a military...
by Merdan Rozyyev | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Turkey has recently enacted a new law on media disinformation, which has sparked widespread concern and criticism from human rights organizations, media freedom advocates, and international bodies such as the United Nations. This is because its definitions of...
by S. Sena Turkdogan | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Once described as the champion of the third wave of democratization in Europe, Hungary has become a pioneer of democratic backsliding. The concept of democratic backsliding refers to the incremental weakening of democratic institutions, procedures, and norms by the...
by Erem Bilgesu | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Recently, the global rise of democratic regimes starting during the 1970s with the Third Wave of Democratization has came to a halt. This wave was then replaced by a rise in autocratic regimes throughout the globe. Many democracies began to decline, as autocracies...
