Eric Chenoweth’s Articles
Eric Chenoweth is co-founder and co-director of IDEE and was also Executive Director of the Committee in Support of Solidarity from 1981–88 (see About the Directors). He is also principal author of Democracy Web, an extracurricular resource web site of the Albert Shanker Institute that includes 12 chapters on basic principles of democracy together with 36 country studies. Mr. Chenoweth has written and published widely on Eastern Europe and democracy issues and below are selected recent articles.
The Authoritarian Challenge: The Concordance of Trump’s Presidency and Putin’s Russia
Revised September 26, 2017 [...]
Does the Constitution Demand Such an Outcome?
December 16, 2017 by Eric Chenoweth PDF Version Long before all the votes were counted, American citizens were told to accept the election of Donald Trump as the next US president. We are still being told [...]
Let Hamilton Speak: Recapturing American Democracy
December 17, 2016 by Eric Chenoweth PDF Version Americans are being told that the Electoral College overrides the national vote in US presidential elections because the nation’s founders established a federal system for states to determine [...]
Turning Away From The Election’s Alarming Story: Russian Intervention
by Eric Chenoweth The following appeared in the Washington Post, November 26, 2016. In assessing Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election’s most alarming story: the successful effort by a [...]
Can US Democracy Defend Itself?
The following article appeared in The Washington Post, November 2, 2016. By Eric Chenoweth Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has posed many challenges to U.S. media. In at least one frightening respect, it has failed: News [...]
The Present Danger
Revised October 7, 2016 PDF Version by Eric Chenoweth Editorial boards of newspapers have become the most responsible civic voices in this year’s US presidential election. […]