by Samuel Zirock | Dec 8, 2021 | Georgia State University
Polarization can be observed as a phenomenon inflicting countries around the world to varying degrees. South Korea is no exception, since the founding of the Sixth Republic of Korea in 1987, the country has experienced polarization of varying levels, and even an...
by Gonzalo Meza | Nov 29, 2021 | Georgia State University
Mexico’s Democracy, on the Path to Autocratization? Gonzalo Meza In 2018, the left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from the newly founded National Regeneration Movement, Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional, MORENA, won the Mexican presidency with...
by Frances Fields | Oct 13, 2021 | University of Georgia
While there is hope for America’s future as a democracy, there are serious democratic backsliding issues at the present moment. Increased polarization is widely accepted as a pre-cursor to this backsliding. Polarization can have a large variety of causes, but in...
by Jessica Zheng | May 12, 2021 | Boston University
I didn’t think political alignment mattered much until I came to the United States for university and got to see partisanship in practice. In Toronto, it was assumed that most people you meet would identify as Liberal, and few Conservative supporters dared to announce...
by Cole Pillar | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
The 116th Congress has passed just 193 bills into law. While Congress still has a few months left in its current term, these numbers pale in comparison to the numbers of the past. Congress has turned into a body where the opposing parties enjoy stifling and shutting...
