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American democracy is in a state of democratic decline. Once rated 93 by Freedom House’s Freedom in the World index in 2013, the U.S.’s score dropped to 86 by 2019 (Repucci 2020). This regression did …
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In 2018, for the first time in the 46 years that Freedom House's global study of political freedom has been conducted, the United States failed to get a 1/7 rating (where 1 is most free and 7 is least …
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In the blog post by Taylor Williams of Saint Louis University, she addresses Donald Trump’s usage of executive power to declare a “national emergency” in order to circumvent congress and secure …
A Response to "How the Democratic Shutdown is Threatening the United States Democratic Legitimacy" by Chad Krys The current state of the United States government can best be described as it was by …
Despite the absurdity of the 2016 election, the success of Donald J. Trump was not a random fluke but rather the result of a series of events starting with the Compromise of 1877. As described in How …
From the beginning of democratization in Ethiopia until present, the government has experienced viable democratic erosion simply by displaying a weak commitment to democratic rules of the game. Within …
