by Sabrine Djemil | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
Across Europe and the United States, political commentators are wringing their hands over the meteoric rise of right-wing populist parties. But the wave of right-wing populist sentiment seems to have skipped over one of its likeliest candidates: Spain. How has this...
by Jacob Hirsch | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
Tension in Greece over the name of one its northern neighbors is already threatening to pull apart the country’s populist coalition. Two weeks after similar demonstrations in the city of Thessaloniki, more than 100,000 protestors gathered in the Greek capital of...
by Ruchi Kirtikar | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
“Friends… countrymen, lend me your ears.” William Shakespeare’s famous line from his play Julius Caesar is one of the oldest mimicking the rhetoric of the “relatable” politician. Nowadays, words like these reach people a lot more quickly and in their own homes....
by Andrey Prigov | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
As Ukraine waits to recover from the social unrest sparked by 2014’s Maidan Revolution and pro-Russian unrest in the Donbas region, it has become painfully evident that eradicating the corrupt business-as-usual mentality within the nation’s politics will be much more...
by Alexander Henshaw-Greene | Nov 15, 2017 | Boston University
In Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Acemoglu and Robinson defines society as two groups; a rich elite dedicated to protecting property rights and favorable to non-democratic policy making, and a poor majority who are supportive of democratic regimes and...
