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...

Flexing My Civic Muscles: Contributing to Effective Voter Turnout Methods

Nov 22, 2022 | Suffolk University

Political canvassing is the backbone of all campaigns. Canvassing is imperative in the initiation of direct contact with individuals who may be inclined to support a...

Generation Z: A Stop Sign for Democratic Erosion?

Nov 22, 2022 | Suffolk University

“But there is something else at stake: democracy itself. [...] We must vote”[2]. In a speech given on November 2nd, President Joe Biden spoke regarding the Midterm...

Jaroslaw and the Law and Justice Party in Poland

Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago

The Law and Justice Party and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, because of their rise to power in 2015, appear to have similar roots as other populist movements across Europe in the 2008 recession. However, this...

The Future of the European Union by Thomas Martino

Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago

Brexit On June 23rd, 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. Nigel Farage was the leader of the Brexit movement, and he addressed the European Parliament less than a week after...

The Wavering Voice and Belief of the “Future” by Kayode Babatunde

Apr 28, 2019 | Georgia State University

How can the most compassionate and diverse largest bloc of voters in the United States be the least participant in a country that seems to be digressing from its roots? Based on common knowledge of...

The Nuclear Option: Explosive Partisan Relations by Emily Maercklein

Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago

A Brief Look into Previous Senate Bipartisanship Early leaders of the United States attempted to imbue the Senate with values of bipartisanship and restraint in order to protect it from the...

Trump and Bolsonaro: How Populist leaders in the United States and Brazil Rose to Power Despite Unpresidential Practices. By Joseph Libertin

Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago

Rise of Populism in the United States and Brazil Populist leaders tend to claim that they represent the common people, and, as Mueller explains, populists tend to pin themselves against a common...

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

Flexing My Civic Muscles: Contributing to Effective Voter Turnout Methods

Generation Z: A Stop Sign for Democratic Erosion?

Jaroslaw and the Law and Justice Party in Poland

The Future of the European Union by Thomas Martino

The Wavering Voice and Belief of the “Future” by Kayode Babatunde

The Nuclear Option: Explosive Partisan Relations by Emily Maercklein

Trump and Bolsonaro: How Populist leaders in the United States and Brazil Rose to Power Despite Unpresidential Practices. By Joseph Libertin

Bribery, Backsliding, and the Rule of Law in Trudeau’s Canada by Warren Casey Epstein

Populism in the United States by Max Krause

MILLENNIALS AND CIVIC ACTIVISM BY MALCOLM MCDOWELL

How Artificial Intelligence Becomes a Friend of Populists? by Josie Lui

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