by Ronen Schatsky | May 8, 2019 | University of Chicago
When Turkey’s voters upended expectations and favored the opposition in the March 31 municipal elections, the question was not how they pulled it off, but how long it would take President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to overturn the results. Just over a month later, he has...
by Guilherme | Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago
The main goal of the census in the United States is to count people, Plain and simple. Regardless of race, ethnicity, age, location, or any of countless other categorizations that people like to talk about, the census must do one thing: count. Now, however, that main...
by Warren Epstein | Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Difference between Scandal and Democratic Backsliding. Trudeau’s SNC-Lavalin scandal while undermining the rule of the law is not sufficient to claim that Canada is experiencing Democratic Backsliding. In his introduction to “Stealth Authoritarianism,” Ozan...
by Clara Fong | Apr 22, 2019 | University of Chicago
Singapore’s newly proposed anti-fake news legislation, The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill, follows in the footsteps of several countries, such as France passing a law last year regulating anonymous political messages on online platforms....
by Luis Sierra | Apr 21, 2019 | University of Chicago
In Venezuela, President Nicholas Maduro has managed to remain in power even as the country continues through protests and a worsening economic crisis. Even after Juan Guiado the opposition leader proclaimed himself as the interim president of the country and has been...
