American and Brazilian politics are intimately interconnected, and as a result have comparably similar social trends with misinformation, public trust, and violent tendencies. Following the 2020 …
Democracy in the United Kingdom: Resilient or a Recipe for Erosion?
As an entrenched democracy with widespread and relatively open political and social institutions, the United Kingdom might not immediately come to mind for a state that is backsliding away from …
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Food and Democracy: Democracy-building U.S. Aid Program under Threat
In 2021, nearly 4 million people were assisted by the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program including 2.1 million school age children across the entire globe. Going into 2023 and 2024, there is …
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Dying Democracy in Israel
***Note from the author: My post is meant to analyze constructively the state of democratic institutions in Israel and remark on how the current conflict affects this. It is not meant to give support …
Speaker of the House and Cause for Concern
Mike Johnson was recently elected as the new speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Johnson is a supporter of former President Trump and had recently filed a lawsuit to overturn the …
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Is Bangladesh an Exceptional Case of Democratic Backsliding?
The current regime of Bangladesh ruled by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been categorized as an authoritarian regime by the V-Dem Institute, a democracy research organization. According to the …
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Malaysia’s Institutional, Socio-cultural, and Foreign Challenges to Democracy
The case of Malaysian politics is a fascinating subject. In 2023, V-Dem considered Malaysia an electoral autocracy, although the report also stated it appears to be currently facing an upward …
Georgia’s Gerrymandering, Legal Institutions, and Democratic Backsliding
A federal judge ruled that Georgia’s congressional and state legislative districts must be redrawn prior to the 2024 election. The report concluded that the Republican-drawn political maps, which took …
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