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When Saving Democracy Looks Like Killing It: Romania’s Election Crisis and the Paradox of Militant Democracy

When Saving Democracy Looks Like Killing It: Romania’s Election Crisis and the Paradox of Militant Democracy

by Amy Randolph-Espinoza | May 1, 2026 | Suffolk University

In December 2024, Romania’s Constitutional Court did something almost without precedent in modern European history: it annulled the first round of a presidential election 48 hours before the second round was scheduled after intelligence reports revealed a...

Georgia’s Representation Problem: Will This Democratic Success Story Soon Crumble?

by Madelyn Cunningham | Dec 16, 2020 | James Madison University

Georgia is heralded by the European Union as one of the successes of democratic transition among the post-Soviet states during the late 20th century, but is this success overestimated? Not only has Georgia maintained one of the highest rates of income inequality of...

Election Manipulation Threatens U.S Democracy

by Patrick Connor | Oct 22, 2020 | Brown University

One month before Election Day, Republican Governor Greg Abbott issued two executive orders altering the newfound role of Texas as a swing state in the 2020 federal elections. First, he restricted mail-in ballot drop off locations to one per each of the 254 counties in...

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