by Mart Peedel | May 26, 2025 | Tartu University
The Polish people are in the process of electing a new president, and these elections are among the most significant in the country’s recent history. The first round of the election took place on the 19th of May, with centrist Rafał Trzaskowski narrowly...
by Thomas Lamieri | Apr 7, 2025 | Tartu University
Ballots and Bullets: How Political Violence Is Undermining Democracy in Mexico In 2024, Mexico held one of the largest and most consequential elections in its recent history—electing over 20,000 officials nationwide, including a new president, Claudia Sheinbaum...
by Sophia Grazia Mauro | Dec 17, 2020 | Sabanci University
American democracy is in a state of democratic decline. Once rated 93 by Freedom House’s Freedom in the World index in 2013, the U.S.’s score dropped to 86 by 2019 (Repucci 2020). This regression did not merely occur overnight, but rather as a gradual process of the...
by Omar Battisha | Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago
In 2018, for the first time in the 46 years that Freedom House’s global study of political freedom has been conducted, the United States failed to get a 1/7 rating (where 1 is most free and 7 is least free). To most political observers, the study’s results...
by Charlotte Kelly | Feb 22, 2019 | Rollins College
In the blog post by Taylor Williams of Saint Louis University, she addresses Donald Trump’s usage of executive power to declare a “national emergency” in order to circumvent congress and secure funding for his border wall. Although it is not beyond his power to...
