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...
by Charlotte Smith | Nov 25, 2021 | University of Georgia
A trend that has become increasingly more noticeable over the past several years is the democratic erosion of Eastern European institutions, which is seen clearly in countries such as Belarus, Hungary, and Poland, the latter of which will be discussed in relation to...
by Eliza Beckerman-Lee | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
After a summer marked by a global health crisis, social upheaval, and a devastating economic downturn, the stakes of an American presidential election have never been higher. And with early voting well under way and election day coming up in less than two weeks,...
