by Cortavis Morrow | Apr 23, 2025 | University of Memphis
Executive Power: The Growing Threat to Democracy We have learned about it, and if you are a citizen of the United States of America, you have lived in it all your life. When it comes to democracy, we understand it as a type of government made for the people. The first...
by Cassandra Fitts | Feb 12, 2025 | Boston University
Former Soviet satellite states that were once poster children for democratization following the decline of European communism have been making drastic pivots towards autocracy in recent years. In 1989 following the fall of the USSR, previously Soviet-occupied Hungary,...
by Sam Levine | Dec 5, 2024 | Brown University
Protecting and fostering democracy has been a cornerstone of the European Union project since its founding. Yet the recent rise of antidemocratic regimes in countries like Poland and Hungary has invited many questions about the EU’s effectiveness in preventing...
by Carson Bauer | Dec 5, 2024 | Brown University
Since 2010, Hungary has had the same leader – far-right populist Viktor Orban. He rose in popularity in the late 1980s after he called on the Soviet Red Army to “go home.” He empowered Hungarians to topple the communist dictatorship, and said that he had...
