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 Hallie W | Apr 6, 2020 | Rollins College
“Democracy’s Enemy Within,” an article published by the Economist in August of 2019, discusses the fatal flaw that is deteriorating many of the world’s modern democracies from the inside out: Cynicism. Cynicism in a political sense is public distrust towards leaders...
by Rachel Dinh Lopez | May 7, 2019 | Sacramento State University
Long before the rule of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, the democracy that began with President Betancourt began to erode. During this time the country enjoyed the rewards of an economically booming and nationalizing oil market. However, with Venezuela’s...
by Mackenzie Cannon | Mar 11, 2019 | Suffolk University
Can quantitative data be the best indicator of a destabilizing democracy? Lebanon’s growing economic crisis may be the icing on the cake in terms of diagnosing the country’s past and present democratic climate. Since 1975, Lebanon has been destabilized by “civil war,...
by Christopher Taylor | Apr 4, 2018 | Yale University
On July 30, 2014, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban boldly declared that “the new state we are constructing in Hungary is an illiberal state.” Coming only three months after Orban’s Fidesz party won a supermajority of seats in Parliament with only 45% of the...
