by Wallace Anne Cloud | Feb 16, 2018 | Skidmore College
Bright Line Watch was created by a group of Political Science professors shortly after the 2016 presidential elections. Over a span of a few months, beginning with the first published results in February 2017, Bright Line Watch has released the results of their...
by Wyeth Taylor | Feb 16, 2018 | Skidmore College
In today’s polarized political time, there is division about everything relating to democracy, including the state of our democracy itself. A large part of this viewpoint centers on one’s political alignment, and by extension how one feels about the direction the...
by Jane Huber | Feb 16, 2018 | Skidmore College
November 9th, 2016. I woke up, read the news, and was convinced our country was deteriorating to shambles. From my perspective, democracy in the United States was failing, but was it really? The system worked the way it has for years. The electoral college and the...
by Izzi Bertolozzi | Feb 16, 2018 | Skidmore College
Bright Line Watch is an organization that, according to their website, “brings together a group of political scientists to monitor democratic practices, their resilience, and potential threats.” The group recently released it’s Wave 4 survey data. Bright Line Watch...
by Jose Smith | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
We are a nation; therefore, we have a right to self-determination. However, not all sociopolitical circumstances are created equally, thus debilitating our agency to define our present and self-determine our future. Our foremost tool of self-determination is our...
