by Christian Santiago | Feb 22, 2019 | Rollins College
A Response to “How the Democratic Shutdown is Threatening the United States Democratic Legitimacy” by Chad Krys The current state of the United States government can best be described as it was by Abraham Lincoln over a century ago when he likened it to...
by Alexander Lloyd | Oct 25, 2018 | Georgia State University
Despite the absurdity of the 2016 election, the success of Donald J. Trump was not a random fluke but rather the result of a series of events starting with the Compromise of 1877. As described in How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the norms of...
by LAISCE KAYE MATTIE MCDOWELL | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
From the beginning of democratization in Ethiopia until present, the government has experienced viable democratic erosion simply by displaying a weak commitment to democratic rules of the game. Within the Ethiopian Constitution it explicitly states in chapter two,...
