by NEFTHALY RIVERA-ALVARADO | Mar 14, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
As seen in several cases of democratic erosion, cunning politicians get publicly elected on a popular platform, and as soon as their shoes hit the floor of their shiny new office they change their entire platform. The president was democratically elected but is not...
by JORDAN MICHAEL NAKDIMON | Mar 14, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
On March 4th, 2018, the Russian government, led by President Vladimir Putin, demonstrated once again what almost the entire world already knows: Russia is currently a highly aggressive, largely undemocratic country. In the English city of Malisbury, on a peaceful...
by EMMA SHAHABI | Mar 13, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Slovakia has been struggling in recent days to recover some sort of stability following the murders of journalist, Jan Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kusnirova. Kuciak was a journalist investigating the corruption in current Slovakian government led by leftist and...
by Sam Wieske | Mar 13, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
A few decades ago, Turkey was the poster-boy of a democracy in the Islamic world. Fast forward to present day and Turkey is far from being a paragon of democracy, in light of the recent coup and referendum. Most scholars define Turkey’s current trend as “democratic...
by MOUTHCHEATA SE | Mar 12, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
On March 2nd, 2018, approximately 20,000 Slovak protestors gathered in the Bratislava’s Freedom Square to mourn and demand justice for a journalist named Jan Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kusnirova, both of whom were assassinated in their house a few days...
