Levitsky and Ziblatt write that ‘extreme polarization can kill democracies.’ [1] Polarization of politics in the US has left Americans not only at risk from a weakening of democracy, but it has also …
“We have had enough, we do not want to be like you”
Last Wednesday Spain reached 1 million Covid-19 cases and the numbers are steadily rising. With official government sources admitting that the real data might be even higher -around 3.5 million …
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Executive Aggrandizement in the Time of COVID-19
Since the start of 2020, the COVID-19 virus has rapidly enveloped the world, creating crises across nations. For many governments, crises offer the perfect environment for aspiring autocrats to …
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COVID-19 and the Serbian Case
“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 …
Rise of CyberSecurity Challenges Due to Covid
Early this year around April, I noticed that I was receiving a lot more spam mail than usual. I also received calls from unknown numbers more frequently, as well as scam applications for various …
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Pandemics and Poor Planning Create Cocktail for Chaos
Faced with sudden challenges due to the pandemic, along with circulating misinformation, voters are left confused ahead of the November …
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Democratic Decline and COVID-19
Photo from Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2019 Report Civic Engagement On October 8th, I attended the webinar “Authoritarianism and Democratic Decline” hosted by Freedom House. The …
The Implications of the Increasing Politicization of Science in the U.S.
As an increasingly broad spectrum of issues start to become topics of partisan debate, it is important to examine the significance and implications of forcing these previously-neutral matters into the …
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