Erica Frantz

2 months ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Erica Frantz |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Joe Wright

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Jan 12, 2025 | politico.com | Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Joseph Wright |Erica Frantz

Trump’s Cabinet nominations will be a critical first test signaling whether American democracy will survive his second term. While some Republican leaders stood up for democracy in Donald Trump’s first term, many party leaders are likely to find it more difficult to oppose the incoming president this time.

Jan 12, 2025 | msn.com | Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Joseph Wright |Erica Frantz

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Jan 12, 2025 | cnas.org | Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Joseph Wright |Erica Frantz

In the coming weeks and months, after Donald Trump takes the oath of office for the second time, Democrats are going to take every opportunity to mobilize voters and coordinate with civil society groups to thwart anti-democratic actions and win power back. Elected Democrats will vote against Trump’s proposed legislation and try to block his executive orders in court. That, after all, is what opposition parties and civil societies are supposed to do.

Jan 10, 2025 | cnas.org | Franz-Stefan Gady |Franz-stefan Gady |Jim Townsend |Erica Frantz |Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Erica Frantz is a leading scholars on personalist regimes, in both their democratic and their authoritarian forms and the co-author, with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright, of “The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy From Within.” In this conversation, it is discussed what personalist regimes are and how they operate, the personalist qualities of Trump and the signs of democratic backsliding that Frantz thinks Americans need to track in the coming...