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.

These blogs reflect the views of the student authors, and not those of the Democratic Erosion Consortium.

Disloyal Opposition Amongst Local Politicians and the Selling Out of Local Communities for Data Centers

This post will be about disloyal opposition and the swelling out of rural community properties to big corporations and Data center constructions in recent years. This is disloyal opposition because state legislators sell out the local communities that hire them for...
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Presidential Rhetoric and Democratic Backsliding

President Trump’s ongoing comments to both journalists and on social media sites like Truth Social are stark examples of crumbling democratic forbearance and dangerous expansion of executive power. Beyond the routine vulgarity that has come to characterize his public...
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The Trend of Polarization: How Political Competition Becomes Conflict

“Us” Versus “Them” In the context of modern politics in the United States and around the world, an increasingly worrying factor that plays a role in the phenomenon of democratic erosion is polarization. Polarization is a process through which the civil and political...
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