These blogs reflect the views of the student authors, and not those of the Democratic Erosion Consortium.
Populism and Its Consequences: Democratic Backsliding and Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi
In 1947 India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of freedom and democracy, marking the transition away from English colonialism. Three years later India's...
Singapore’s Contradiction of Modernization Theory
In 1959, Lipset posited that the modernization of a country is conducive to democratization. Lipset understood modernization to include development in industrialization,...