by ISABELLA GRACE GUERRA | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
This past Sunday China’s National People’s Congress voted in an overwhelmingly majority to abolish its presidential term limits, allowing China’s current presidential leader, Xi Jinping, to remain in power indefinitely. This newly added amendment would be altering the...
by EMMANUEL EMENIKE IHEKE | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
As we speak, Poland continues to take more and more steps away from the commonly held European Union tradition of democracy. This process – the erosion of democratic values and transition towards an authoritarian governmental structure – is called...
by Carolyn Stephens | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
In 2016, the populist Law and Justice party (PiS) of Poland gained a majority in the lower house of parliament without a coalition. The party consequently used their legislative power to adjust the judicial and electoral systems in their own favor. This legislation...
by JONATHAN PAUL KIDD | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
“…And yet, the amateurs are the ones conquering the world and I’m rejoicing in it because the professionals are the ones who have reduced the world to this state”(Durden). – Beppe Grillo A Dangerous storm of Populism and Authoritarianism has been brewing in...
by SAMUEL ALEXANDER BROGADIR | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Topless women, fine Italian suits, and two undisclosed murders… and no this isn’t about a Hollywood movie. The current political climate in Slovakia has gone from deleterious to deplorable in a matter of weeks. For some years it’s been known the syndicate,...
