by S K | Oct 20, 2020 | Williams College
What does it mean when everyone already knows the results of an election months, or even years, before it occurs? The citizens of Cameroon, a country in Central Africa, expect the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) to win elections despite...
by Tzion Jones | Oct 17, 2020 | Brown University
Just because a new government ‘checks all the boxes’ of a democracy doesn’t mean it’s going to run smoothly. The conditions under which a democratic society is born have lasting impacts on the quality of democracy. In the case of South Africa, decades of...
by Rickeil Topiwala | Oct 14, 2020 | Northeastern University
Ethiopia’s democracy has been slowly backsliding. What started as a successful new era for leader Abiy Ahmed with sweeping government reforms and even a Nobel Peace Prize has dissolved into near authoritarianism. So what happened? In 2018, Abiy Ahmed took office...
by Olivia Bauer | Oct 14, 2020 | University of Georgia
The international community has difficulty punishing leaders who undermine electoral power transitions through democratic channels. In August 2020, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was forced to resign at gunpoint during a military coup. Regional and global...
by Brianna Barnes | Mar 2, 2020 | Georgia State University
The security system in Niger has weakened due to ongoing conflicts. The absence of a stable government prevents the successful distribution of public services, strong democracy, and peacekeeping from taking place. The central government has taken advantage of the...
