Zywoo
@zywoo5782.bsky.social
Meta-political writer. Graduate of a global top-20 university. I share cool logic about power.
Afghanistan’s 2021 collapse shows that ballots and constitutions alone do not sustain democracy. Elections and separation of powers are procedures; what matters is institutional architecture.
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The Fragility of Uncoupled Democracies: Case Studies of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela
The Fragility of Uncoupled Democracies: Case Studies of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela On a hot August afternoon, the streets of Kabul went suddenly quiet. Bank apps froze; airport phones clicked …
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October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Afghanistan’s 2021 collapse shows that ballots and constitutions alone do not sustain democracy. Elections and separation of powers are procedures; what matters is institutional architecture.
medium.com/why-democrac...
medium.com/why-democrac...
Afghanistan’s 2021 collapse shows that ballots and constitutions alone do not sustain democracy. Elections and separation of powers are procedures; what matters is institutional architecture.
The Fragility of Uncoupled Democracies: Case Studies of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela
The Fragility of Uncoupled Democracies: Case Studies of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela On a hot August afternoon, the streets of Kabul went suddenly quiet. Bank apps froze; airport phones clicked …
medium.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Afghanistan’s 2021 collapse shows that ballots and constitutions alone do not sustain democracy. Elections and separation of powers are procedures; what matters is institutional architecture.
Democracy breaks not in triumph but in fracture.
France’s First Republic collapsed into Terror;
Germany’s Weimar Republic into dictatorship.
Both reveal a deeper truth: separation of powers is never enough.
medium.com/why-democrac...
France’s First Republic collapsed into Terror;
Germany’s Weimar Republic into dictatorship.
Both reveal a deeper truth: separation of powers is never enough.
medium.com/why-democrac...
Beheading in Paris, Burial in Berlin
How Democracies Collapse
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September 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Democracy breaks not in triumph but in fracture.
France’s First Republic collapsed into Terror;
Germany’s Weimar Republic into dictatorship.
Both reveal a deeper truth: separation of powers is never enough.
medium.com/why-democrac...
France’s First Republic collapsed into Terror;
Germany’s Weimar Republic into dictatorship.
Both reveal a deeper truth: separation of powers is never enough.
medium.com/why-democrac...
Checks and balances sustain routine order; legitimacy restrains existential excess.
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Checks and balances sustain routine order; legitimacy restrains existential excess.
Separation of powers keeps routine politics safe—but democracies survive crises with a final gate: a safety valve that ties votes to national continuity. I map four versions—UK/JP/LUX/ESP—and why they deter constitutional self-harm. Full piece 👉
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The Silent Guardian of Democracy: The logic of Loyal Assent
Introduction
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September 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Separation of powers keeps routine politics safe—but democracies survive crises with a final gate: a safety valve that ties votes to national continuity. I map four versions—UK/JP/LUX/ESP—and why they deter constitutional self-harm. Full piece 👉
medium.com/why-democrac...
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London, 1945. Tokyo, 1947.
Winner and loser, one question: Can democracy survive?
The answer didn’t lie in parliaments or courts alone. It lay in a silent safeguard: the ceremonial sovereign. A monarch who rules nothing—yet protects everything. 🧵
Winner and loser, one question: Can democracy survive?
The answer didn’t lie in parliaments or courts alone. It lay in a silent safeguard: the ceremonial sovereign. A monarch who rules nothing—yet protects everything. 🧵
August 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
London, 1945. Tokyo, 1947.
Winner and loser, one question: Can democracy survive?
The answer didn’t lie in parliaments or courts alone. It lay in a silent safeguard: the ceremonial sovereign. A monarch who rules nothing—yet protects everything. 🧵
Winner and loser, one question: Can democracy survive?
The answer didn’t lie in parliaments or courts alone. It lay in a silent safeguard: the ceremonial sovereign. A monarch who rules nothing—yet protects everything. 🧵
For two centuries, democracy was defended by separation of powers.
But history shows: courts, parliaments, executives can still collapse.
The real missing ingredient? Legitimacy.
But history shows: courts, parliaments, executives can still collapse.
The real missing ingredient? Legitimacy.
August 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
For two centuries, democracy was defended by separation of powers.
But history shows: courts, parliaments, executives can still collapse.
The real missing ingredient? Legitimacy.
But history shows: courts, parliaments, executives can still collapse.
The real missing ingredient? Legitimacy.