In 2024, more than 40% of the world’s population is eligible to vote in an election. The scale is unprecedented, but not all elections are made equal. What will it mean for democracy?
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A candidate from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party looks set to win the presidency despite Beijing’s pressure and rhetoric.
The evidence is very mixed on how markets are affected by elections, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be irrelevant in 2024.
Trends of global power tensions, open war, democratic decline and extreme job market fluctuations are likely to continue in 2024
Anti-democratic actions and government corruption are key reasons many Guatemalans migrate to the US.
There are lots of ideas about how to save local news. One of them is that increasing coverage of local politics will bring back readers and viewers. Research shows that it doesn’t.
The Treaty of Lisbon celebrates its 15th anniversary on 13 December. Looking back, experts agree that it played a big part in structuring the EU as we know it. It reinforced the role of Commission President…
The deadline to fund the US government is fast approaching, and it will take a Congress seemingly addicted to brinkmanship to keep the government open.
A peaceful power transition would be a sign of a maturing democracy.
Two conditions enable courts to take the risk of nullifying the elections of ruling party candidates.
The autocratic Law and Justice Party looks set to be turfed out by a center-left coalition, which gained more than half of all votes.
Does the ‘diploma divide’ make politics more about culture than economic inequality?
ChatGPT and its ilk give propagandists and intelligence agents a powerful new tool for interfering in politics. The clock is ticking on learning to spot this disinformation before the 2024 election.
No matter how clean an election is, Nigerian politicians typically challenge the result.
Gabon is resource rich, but the Bongo family’s continuous rule has been bad news for the country of 2.3 million people.
The political elite have held on to power through power-sharing arrangements rather than the ballot. How will that change?
For a quarter of a century Malaysians have campaigned for something better, for greater transparency and accountability, and a more equitable, cross-communal, way of governing Malaysia.
The drive to remove Confederate monuments links those monuments to modern racism. An economic historian shows that the intent and effect of those monuments from inception was to perpetuate racism.
The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially.
Leadership succession can be dangerous for dictatorships, encouraging infighting among political elites and potentially plunging a country into chaos.
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