by Isabet Tranchin | Apr 23, 2019 | University of Chicago
Facebook now boasts more than two billion users worldwide, but this well-known social media platform also has a rising role in the political arena. As the internet becomes more accessible social media leviathans like Facebook become staples in modern society, but they...
by Wabantu Hlophe | Apr 6, 2018 | Yale University
Since the transition to full democracy in 1994, South Africa has experienced limited democratic erosion, driven by extreme racial inequality, outsized policy influence from the private sector and sluggish economic development. The ruling African National Congress’s...
by Ruchi Kirtikar | Mar 28, 2018 | Columbia University
Nietzsche has likened corruption to the annual arrival of autumn. In some countries, this changing season may be manufactured by a coup, the potential beginning of democratic backsliding. In others, it could be a hasty effort by the government to sweep up this...
by Micah Rosen | Oct 4, 2017 | Brown University
In 1994, South Africa broke a wicked spell of white control, saying its last goodbye to a horrifically undemocratic apartheid political system. But champions of democracy must be careful to turn the page. Decades later, we see a very new threat the country’s...
