Despite not having grown up in the US, for virtually all my life I’ve heard about the robustness of American democracy, including – …
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posted on by Atman Mehta
University of Chicago Tagged With: Democratic Erosion, judicial independence, judiciary, United States
Despite not having grown up in the US, for virtually all my life I’ve heard about the robustness of American democracy, including – …
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posted on by Kim Suheun
University of Chicago Tagged With: Asia, authoritarianism, Autocracy, East Asia, North Korea, populism
The political structure of a country is often presented on a spectrum; it is the degree of democracy or autocracy rather than a dichotomous classification. [1] For sure, many scholars have argued for …
posted on by Marissa Linn
University of Chicago Tagged With: democracy, Donald Trump, middle class, Seymour Lipset, United States, wealth inequality
In his 1959 book “Some Social Requisites of Democracy,” American sociologist and democratic theorist Seymour Lipset advanced a model of what made certain democracies stable and others unstable. He …
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posted on by Zachary Garai
After the passing of Justice Scalia in 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would not consider any nomination until a new president was elected. Democrats were …
posted on by Maggie Habib
University of Chicago Tagged With: North America, Supreme Court, United States, United States of America, voting rights
On Monday, the Supreme Court split four to four in a decision on whether Pennsylvania absentee ballots received up to three days after election day could be counted, allowing …
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posted on by Sophia Barkoff
University of Chicago Tagged With: COVID-19, Serbia, vucic
“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion.” This line from Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s book How …