by Carson Bauer | Oct 9, 2024 | Brown University
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves across the West. Long-time geopolitical neutrals Finland and Sweden joined NATO, and many Western countries levied sanctions to cripple the power of the Kremlin, including most countries in Europe. One notable...
by Tom Huynh | Nov 20, 2023 | University of Memphis
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 context of the United States, stealth authoritarianism is an American...
by Erin Egan | Oct 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
The country of Georgia, located at the border of Europe and Asia, has recently seen a major constriction of civil liberties. Once a member of the Soviet Union, Georgia is now classified as its own hybrid regime, having seceded in 1991. As of 2022, Freedom House labels...
by Erin Egan | Sep 30, 2022 | Ohio State University
The concept of free and fair elections, one of the hallmarks of a functioning democracy, seems to be slipping away in the United States. While Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election are influential, Republicans are doing more than...
by Julia Nunamaker | Jun 25, 2022 | University of Denver
Restrictive voter ID laws have become increasingly salient as more states pass or introduce legislation making identification a central part of voting (Hajnal et. al., 2017). These laws, where “the strictest require photo identification in order to cast a regular...
