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16 Jun 2015, 1:36 pm by Heather K. Gerken
The elite-driven model: On this model, the parties are not democracies; they are more like firms, competing in the broader democratic arena. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
How far can one party go to use its majority status to marginalize—and potentially to destroy—the other party? [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 12:07 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Center for Systemic Peace: “The USA has dropped below the “democracy threshold” (+6) on the POLITY scale in 2020 and and is now considered an anocracy (+5). [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 12:02 pm by Jaclyn Belczyk
Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy (NLD) [party website] decided last month to reenter politics after boycotting last year's elections in which Suu Kyi was not allowed to run. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 3:20 am
The issues of campaign finance, gerrymandering, and the role of political parties provide case studies in how legal scholarship has adopted institutional approaches to politics. [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”As a result of this “what aboutism,” it is not surprising that Americans are deeply divided about which political party poses the greatest threat to democracy. 49% say it is the Republicans, and 45% say it is the Democrats.A 2022 NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that “Democrats see that threat coming from the lies that former President Trump has been pushing, with baseless claims of a stolen election that have been disproven. [read post]
1 Mar 2021, 5:30 am by Brian Leiter
And they're just getting going to "do something about it": “The typical response by a losing party in a functioning democracy is that they alter their platform to make it more appealing,” Kenneth Mayer, an expert on voting and elections... [read post]
13 Mar 2020, 12:28 pm by Alanah Lockwood
Military members and Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) lawmakers opposing the amendments warned that reducing the military’s role could undermine national unity and military relations with civilians. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  In an effort to guard constitutional democracy, the German Basic Law includes many countermajoritarian features that may appear antidemocratic, including the power of the Constitutional Court to ban political parties that aim to undermine the free democratic basic order or endanger the existence of the nation (art. 21), in addition to that court’s power of judicial review (art. 93). [read post]
1 Nov 2022, 2:15 pm by Christopher J. Walker
From our first interactions (and before that when I read his scholarship), Professor Shane has had an unwavering vision of presidential power—one that does not change when there was a change in which party controls the White House. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 8:55 pm by Lawrence Solum
  Here is the abstract: In democracies, political parties promise to expand social benefits to attract voters in the lead-up to elections. [read post]
” The three activists were part of the Demosisto political party and helped to rally thousands of protestors outside of police headquarters to protest excessive force against pro-democracy demonstrators in June 2019. [read post]
28 Feb 2021, 9:15 pm by Tom Smith
The latter’s charging is a day after his political party, Power for Democracy, decided to cease organized activities and vowed to follow Basic Law and the National Security Law. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 8:36 am
As the United States professes, often incoherently, to favor the spread of "democracy" across the world, ask yourself which of the nominating processes of the two American parties offers a more attractive example of choice "by the people. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 3:24 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Anti-establishment leaders, parties and movements have emerged on both the right and left of the political spectrum, in some cases challenging fundamental norms and institutions of liberal democracy. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 2:03 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
These data were collected after it became clear which party would control the House and Senate but while votes were still being counted in most states and with some House contests still unresolved. [read post]