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Every Ten Years, Politicians in the U.S. Redraw Maps – and it’s Killing Democracy

by Jason Wright | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University

            Following the conclusion of the 2020 Census in the United States, all fifty states began the process of legislative redistricting. Redistricting is the mechanism through which the boundaries of state...

Democracy Lost in the Mail: Understanding the 2020 Postal Service Crisis

by Sam Stahler | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University

Democratic erosion has, if nothing else, certainly become a more prominent and well-known topic in the United States over the past six years. The extent to which events in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and in the presidencies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, constitute...

Viktor Orbán’s Latest Erosion of Democracy: Rhetorical Advances Towards Autocracy

by Lucy Nye | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago

Many political scientists assert that Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán is an autocrat and point to Hungary as a prime example of democratic erosion. Orbán’s article “Samizdat 16” published on January 28, 2022, confirms these characterizations. In it, Orbán...

Evaluating the (un)Democratic Performance of Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari

by Eli Ameyibor | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago

When All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Muhammadu Buhari defeated the incumbent Johnathan Goodluck from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 Nigerian election, many saw the country as finally heading toward democracy. Goodluck had been in...

A Wall to Divide Hispaniola Once and For All

by MVIRGILI21@KU.EDU.TR | Jan 18, 2022 | Koç University

The Dominican Republic, through the voice of its current president, Luis Abinader, has announced the construction of a wall to permanently separate the 380 km border with Haiti in order to combat and put an end to illegal immigration, drug trafficking and rampant...
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