by Jonathan Kung | Jun 9, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
As social media begins to continually grow within the U.S. so will the trends of increasing polarization. Everybody wants to feel like they’re not alone. Whether this is in regards to political beliefs, hobbies or even daily life everybody wishes to find...
by Ezra Oyarce | Jun 9, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
The effective Republican prohibition of any meaningful debate on gun reform represents many of the hallmarks of anti-democratic practices: the filibuster, money in politics, and polarization … Rather than attempting to repeat the tired argument over the specific...
by AKARAMAN18@KU.EDU.TR | Jun 8, 2022 | Koç University
Indonesia’s Polarization on the Edges of Power, Secularism and Power Joko Widodo, current president of Indonesia ( derived from The Economist, 2019) How does polarization contribute to democratic backsliding? There is no clear answer to this question, as the two...
by EPEKESEN19@KU.EDU.TR | Jun 7, 2022 | Koç University
The harsh rhetoric and actions of the Pashinyan government/movement is straying Armenia from the very democratic principles that they were vowing to achieve. In 2018 during the month of April and May an approximately one-month long series of civil unrest...
by Maggie Pierce | Jun 3, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
Following the first round of presidential elections, in which no candidate received a majority of the votes, Colombia’s top two candidates will compete in a runoff election on June 19, 2022. Colombia is caught up in their presidential election since the...
