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...
by Lucas Aguayo-Garber | May 9, 2022 | Brown University
At the end of last month the Biden administration unveiled a new “Disinformation Board” within the Department of Homeland Security, aimed at attacking online “disinformation” as a national security threat in and of itself. Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has...
