CONTENTS

Letter From the Editors

Letter From the Dean

 

ARGUMENTS

Colombia, A Laboratory for History by Juan Manuel Santos

Turkey: Marching Toward One-Man Rule by Nicole Pope

Civil Society: The Pulsating Heart of a Country, Its Safety Valve by Jenik Radon and Lidia Cano Pecharroman

Shoring Up a Democracy Under Siege by Laleh Ispahani and Sarah R. Knight

How Big Data is Changing Democracy by Venkat Motupalli

 

ARTICLES

Pre-Copernican Political Science: What Analysis of "Authoritarian- ism" Reveals about the American Study of Politics by Lisa Anderson

Democratic Grassroots Politics and Clean Economic Growth by Steven Cohen

Disinformation and Democracy: The Internet Transformed Protest but Did Not Improve Democracy by Anya Schiffrin

Digital Challenges to Democracy: Politics of Automation, Attention, and Engagement by H. Akin Unver

The Latin American Left’s Missed Opportunity to Deepen Democracy by Benjamin Goldfrank

The Slow Death of Western Democracy and What Comes After by Álvaro Gómez del Valle Ruiz

 

INTERVIEWS

Democracy in Europe is being reconsidered from top to bottom Interview with Sheri Berman

Economic globalization has run ahead of political globalization Interview with Rana Foroohar

The Russian people do not want to make sacrifices anymore Interview with Lilia Shevtsova

 

STUDENT ESSAY

A High Stakes Gamble: U.S. Assistance for Ukraine’s Pro-Democracy Movements by David Korenke

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Predicting the Future: A Review of Human Rights Futures edited by Stephen Hopgood, Jack Snyder, and Leslie Vinjamuri Review by Ayesha Myra Amin

The Construct of Muslim Unity: A Review of The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History by Cemil Aydin Review by Morgan Chicchelly

A Rejection of Hope: A Review of We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates Review by Jewel Conrad