by Raj Singh | Mar 31, 2019 | Rollins College
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 isconcerned with the legitimacy of the results of voting and how to...
by Ej Broker | Mar 26, 2019 | Rollins College
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 citizenry is directly involved in the legislative decisions of a nation’s...
by JONAH COOKE KAY | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
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. Following a military coup and a state of emergency in 2017, President...
by Sandra Sugata | Feb 15, 2018 | Columbia University
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. Quick count results showed, by a 2-to-1 margin, that voters approved...
by Maxine Moore | Oct 12, 2017 | Boston University
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 stopping the vote from happening. These actions included seizing...
