Democratic Erosion University Course Student Blog

Students enrolled in our course are encouraged to write for the course blog, and to read and comment on posts from students at other participating universities. The blog offers students the opportunity to analyze current events through the lens of the theory and case studies they engage with through the course.

Arresting Opposition and Squashing Protests: Democratic Backsliding in Turkey Under Erdoğan

Turkey has been inching towards autocracy under Erdoğan and the AKP for the last 22 years.

2025 Romanian Elections: An Election Redo and a Barred Candidate

Only two weeks out from Presidential Elections, Romanian voters face a tough decision in deciding on the next leader of their country. The latest opinion polls show that nearly 40% of voters are still undecided on who to vote for. After all, most voters already cast...

Why Protecting American Democracy Means Coming Together In Protest

In the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, the Democratic Erosion Consortium's very own professors Robert Blair and Steven Rosenzweig wrote an article in The Boston Globe urging readers to “Get ready to protest like democracy depends on it.” The article was in...

Chad’s Main Opposition Leader Fears Returning to His Country

Nov 20, 2023 | Northeastern University

The political exile of Succes Masra, leader of a main opposition party to the military junta in Chad, has recently come to an end after over a year away from the country....

‘The rest of the world is looking,’ – President Biden Delivers a Warning on U.S. Democratic Backsliding Preceding 2024 Election.

Nov 17, 2023 | Salem State University

On September 28, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a speech commemorating the late senator John McCain, addressing the state of democratic backsliding in America, and...

Democratic Erosion University Course Student Blog

Arresting Opposition and Squashing Protests: Democratic Backsliding in Turkey Under Erdoğan

2025 Romanian Elections: An Election Redo and a Barred Candidate

Why Protecting American Democracy Means Coming Together In Protest

Chad’s Main Opposition Leader Fears Returning to His Country

‘The rest of the world is looking,’ – President Biden Delivers a Warning on U.S. Democratic Backsliding Preceding 2024 Election.

Democracy: COVID’s Latest Victim

President al-Sisi vs. The People

Populists Politicizing the Personal and Deepening Democratic Erosion: Abortion Law in Poland

Virtual Civil Society Networks and the Milk Tea Alliance

Democratic Erosion – El Salvador

Digital Populism: The Risk of the New Political Outsider

Armenia’s Postwar Political Crisis

Civil Society and Democratic Decline: A Look at Poland

Elites as Key to Elimination of Racial Injustice in America’s Government Institutions

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