by Omar Battisha | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
Take a peek into stores in the US and you’ll find a plethora of campaign gear for political candidates that only exist on TV shows–everything from shirts touting support for The West Wing’s Jed Bartlett to mugs promoting Veep’s Selena Mayer in her...
by Ruth Selipsky | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
Populism is an unstable and often erosive force in democracy. According to Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz, populists elected into positions of power through democratic means will proceed to “gradually undermine institutional constraints on their rule” and...
by Rachel Dinh Lopez | May 7, 2019 | Sacramento State University
Long before the rule of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, the democracy that began with President Betancourt began to erode. During this time the country enjoyed the rewards of an economically booming and nationalizing oil market. However, with Venezuela’s...
by Sara Rosendorf | May 4, 2019 | Georgia State University
“The Punisher,” “Dirty Harry,” “Trump of the Philippines.” These are just a few of the nicknames given to controversial Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, and for good reason. You might think that with nicknames like that, the President-elect would be some sort of...
by Ronen Schatsky | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
Democrats are lining up to run against President Trump, and they will be confronting a unique challenge. Not only are they running against an incumbent president, a historically difficult feat, but they must run against populism. In his book “What is Populism,”...
