by Ryeowon Kim | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
Introduction According to Freedom House, Kenya is a multiparty democracy that holds regular and competitive elections. However, having elections does not always mean that a democracy is strong. In our class, we learned that democracy also requires political...
by Alice Su | Oct 2, 2026 | Boston University
India’s opposition parties say the country’s elections are being rigged, challenging the election institute. Their members of parliament plan to march to the Election Commission, the agency that runs India’s elections and is supposed to act as a...
by Anna Thorner | Jun 24, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Political power, a vital yet oftentimes insidious force, corrupts even the most representative of political parties. However, democratic institutions are our greatest arsenal against this corruption, serving as weapons, safeguarding the trust of the people and...
by grithol1@binghamton.edu | Oct 12, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
Turkey has seen immense democratic erosion (backsliding) in the last few years of the Justice and Development party’s (AKP) rule in Turkey. Initially, the party brought about great prosperity, including membership talks with the European Union and strong economic...
by Fausto Rojas | Mar 15, 2022 | Brown University
The current state of global democracy is in shambles. Liberal democratic institutions are in decline and the erosion of global democracy in recent years has only accelerated. As such, the liberal vision of the “end of history” after the fall of communism has been...
