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A response to "How a Strange Massachusetts Election Helps Explain Britain’s Brexit Chaos” by Max Fisher (NYT) The recent events surrounding Britain’s controversial Brexit referendums has …
Continue Reading about Brexit is Britain’s Canary in the Coal Mine by Christian Santiago →
When looking at daily news, a few topics have been constantly appearing in the last two years. The most frequent of them all: the Brexit Referendum and its fallout in the British parliament. It …
Continue Reading about Assessing Public Opinion by Rajdeep Singh →
Democracy By Coincidence Referenda and recalls are some of the seemingly democratic solutions to the failures of the electoral system or the representatives within it. In the former, the …
Continue Reading about Treating the Symptoms Doesn’t Cure the Democratic Disease by EJ Broker →
A Turkish Tragedy Recent actions taken by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have put the country in the spotlight due to the proliferate democratic erosion that has been unfolding. …
Continue Reading about A TURKISH TRAGEDY by JONAH KAY @ UCLA →
In a referendum that came on the heels of Lenin Moreno’s presidential victory, an overwhelming majority of Ecuadorian voters hammered the final nail in Rafael Correa’s proverbial political coffin. …
While talk of a referendum regarding Catalonia becoming independent from Spain has been occurring for months, on October 1st, Catalonia finally voted. Madrid did everything in its power in hopes of …
Continue Reading about Spain, Stop Hiding Behind Smokescreens by Maxine Moore @ Boston University →
On October 1, Spain responded to what they deemed an illegal referendum by employing police forces to stop individuals in the region of Catalonia from voting for or against independence from Spain. …
