by Sinan Bruce | May 12, 2021 | Boston University
There exist various methods of asserting control over a state. In Turkey, it involves what I call “zombification”. Ahval’s Yavuz Baydar in 2018 wrote an article whose headline was “Turning Turkey into a ‘zombie’ nation of undesirables”. Reading the title, I was struck...
by Thomas Martino | Apr 22, 2019 | University of Chicago
Tolerant Democracy American democracy is built upon the preposition that the political opposition is not the enemy. In their book How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt describe mutual toleration and institutional forbearance as the bedrocks to...
by Benjamin Wuesthoff | Apr 9, 2019 | Boston University
For the past 21 weeks, France’s major cities have been gripped by an atmosphere of civil unrest as thousands of citizens take to the streets and voice their dissatisfaction with the politics and personality of their President, Emmanuel Macron. While the French are...
by Anne Pfeifenberger | Feb 17, 2018 | Skidmore College
Our Democracy has Bright Lines that when crossed compromise our democratic values and rights. The erosions of those lines and democratic norms has now come to the fore as one of the largest political debates since Donald Trump won the presidential election in November...
by Matthew Jarrell | Nov 14, 2017 | Brown University
John Adams famously wrote that the infant United States, as a new republic, was a nation of laws and not of men—by which he presumably meant no single personality, no matter how large or formidable, can create the standards to which we hold ourselves as a people. Only...
