by Joseph Ozmer | Dec 14, 2020 | University of Georgia
Few political phenomena are as well known as the “Rally Around the Flag” effect. Tragic events or instances of conflict can shift public opinion in favor of ruling authorities. Much of the time, this can be a mixed blessing for the authorities in question....
by Kevin Yang | Dec 9, 2020 | Williams College
In 1995, the Dayton Agreement ended the Bosnian War, establishing modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, a state explicitly structured by ethnic group. 25 years later, a strained peace persists, but ethnic polarization has only deepened. Sectarianism endures at the...
by Samantha Gable | Dec 2, 2020 | Brown University
The European Union is failing to maintain democracy in their member states. Not only are they failing to threaten these countries into cooperating, they may also be creating an environment that strengthens these leaders and their anti-democratic ways. ...
by Lukas Phipps | Nov 23, 2020 | Suffolk University
2016 was the year of the populist; The Guardian noted that the words “populist” or “populism” were in almost 2,000 articles written by them in 2016, compared to only 1,000 the year before. In 2016: more than a quarter of Europeans voted...
by Hugo Barrillon | Nov 16, 2020 | University of Chicago
Incentives are everything. Since its founding in 1993, the European Union (EU) has understood this and become a master of soft power pressure and incentive-based democratic reforms. Indeed, as much as the European Union began as an economic union, it has taken on...
