by Abby Manu | May 12, 2020 | Georgia State University Perimeter College
The state of South Korea’s democracy is precarious; instead of a positive trend of democratization, democratic erosion is the prevalent force. De-democratization with a myriad of names refers to the gradual decline of democracy, often caused by the...
by Mohammad Almishlawi | May 1, 2020 | Bilkent University
For a long time, Lebanon has been synonymous for civil conflicts and sectarian clientelism; Lebanese citizens never had a high level of solidarity and sympathy across their various sects and regions. The consociational democratic system in the country has brought huge...
by Aja' Parker | Apr 30, 2020 | Georgia State University
Jamaica’s democracy experienced three declines between 2010 and 2019. Specifically these declines began in 2011, 2015, and 2017. Within each decline Jamaica experienced either: vertical corruption, state violence, non-state violence also known as gang violence or...
by Kaan Akcay | Apr 28, 2020 | Bilkent University
The coronavirus outbreak raises some interesting questions for the social scientists and the general public. Most importantly, why are some countries more successful than the others? Differentiation between the success of the countries against the outbreak creates an...
by Troy | Apr 24, 2020 | Suffolk University
Interview of Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, hosted by Anderson Cooper for CNN’s Newsroom Have people not learned from the Tuskegee experiment which began in 1932? In the past few days, news outlets and people all over the internet have been re-posting and...