Responding to the Trinamool Congress's charge that thousands of its workers were rendered homeless since the BJP's landslide, ...

The intersection of religion and politics is a sensitive realm, but the global conversation has undeniably arrived there. The recent conflict between the Pope and the US President was not a personal ...

Grotesquely excessive punishment for minor or fictional dissent – such as a coffee stain on the leader’s image or an ...

The state of mind with endlessly branching emotions is written in Chinese characters as 정서 (emotions). The latter character, ‘서,’ originally means a "clue" that can unravel a tangled thread. It also ...

Before the 1990 elections, many experts had assumed that the main effect of local democracy would be to deliver more autonomy ...

After 16 years of illiberal governance under outgoing prime minister Viktor Orban, restoring the rule of law in Hungary is ...

Opponents of Democratic Republic of the Congo President Félix Tshisekedi have expressed alarm after his declaration this week ...

Even though the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended)(the Constitution) is meant to be the symbol of democracy in Nigeria, the one that supposedly transformed Nigeria from ...

Indian American political scientist’s research focuses on authoritarian regimes and transitions to and from democracy.

On April 22, just 10 days after Viktor Orbán, the corrupt, authoritarian leader of Hungary, was ushered out of office in a historic landslide — Orbán ruled the country for 16 years and systematically ...

Let’s begin with a troubling truth: in many countries, hundreds of millions of people nowadays feel that when it comes to the biggest decisions affecting their lives, despite all the talk of ...