by Ra'shad Johnson | Mar 7, 2018 | Georgia State University
The democratic gem, the United States, is undergoing extensive backsliding due in part to gerrymandering. Gerrymandering by definition means to divide – to divide a state into districts as to unfairly give a political party an advantage in a majority of...
by Shravan Balaji | Feb 25, 2018 | University of Pennsylvania
Introduction: On January 22nd, 2018, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court ruled that the state’s U.S. Congressional Districting Map was unconstitutional. Drawn up in the aftermath of the 2010 midterm elections, which led to massive Republican majorities in both...
by Pomerantz Rachel | Feb 25, 2018 | University of Pennsylvania
The political fight over gerrymandering in Pennsylvania has recently taken a markedly dangerous turn. The legal battle over the Pennsylvania congressional district lines has become a debate about separation of powers, judicial independence, and the sanctity of...
by Jake Hempel | Feb 16, 2018 | Skidmore College
The surveys conducted by Bright Line Watch in order to assess the quality of democracy in the United States on multiple scales are definitely helpful in displaying the varying perceptions in respondents. However, the most telling statistics that are shown are pretty...
by Isabela Karibjanian | Oct 11, 2017 | Brown University
President Donald Trump’s presidency is not the start of democratic erosion in the United States – it’s the continuation of several long and often normalized trends. According to Juan J. Linz’s The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown and Reequilibration,...
