American and Brazilian politics are intimately interconnected, and as a result have comparably similar social trends with misinformation, public trust, and violent tendencies. Following the 2020 …
Democracy in Peril: The Menace of Fake News and Propaganda of the Marcoses on Social Media in the Philippines
After the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipinos vowed that neither the Marcoses nor the tyranny of martial law would ever return to Malacañang Palace. About forty decades …
Venezuela: Two leaders, one resource, no democracy
The story of Venezuela’s descent into autocracy is not one tale; it is two stories linked together by little more than a transfer of power and an overreliance upon the volatile oil industry to promote …
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American Democracy and the Censuring of Rashida Tlaib
On November 7th, in a 234-188 vote, the United States House of Representatives voted to censure Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib following Tlaib’s comments on the Israel-Hamas war. Twenty-two Democrats …
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Ballot Initiatives: Lessons from Ohio’s November Elections
On Tuesday, November 7, voters in Ohio went to the polls and voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution and legalize recreational marijuana use (Issue 1 and Issue 2 on the …
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The Danger of Political Disinformation Within the United States
Political Disinformation is one of the greatest threats facing the United States today. It not only makes some question their …
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Stealth Authoritarianism being an American Compromise.
The Democratic Erosion Project exist to help shed light on how democracy falls apart and ways to preserve it as the rise of authoritarian states spread across the democratic world. However in the …
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Georgia’s Gerrymandering, Legal Institutions, and Democratic Backsliding
A federal judge ruled that Georgia’s congressional and state legislative districts must be redrawn prior to the 2024 election. The report concluded that the Republican-drawn political maps, which took …
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