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,...
by Aidan Calvelli | Oct 9, 2017 | Brown University
It’s no bold claim to say that the United States is a democracy. Our Constitution, one of the earliest iterations of representative government and the model for hundreds more worldwide, formalized scores of democratic norms: regular elections, voting rights, civil...
