If citizens disbelieve the institutions that count ballots and the organizations that accurately report on those results, it will be impossible to agree on what a legitimate election looks like.
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Tens of thousands of people have defied bans on gatherings to protest abortion restrictions. A scholar of democracy says the policy push during a pandemic has echoes elsewhere.
Although it’s failed to deliver democracy to citizens, Nigeria is not the collapsed and disintegrated entity which a 2005 US National Intelligence Council analysis predicted it would become by 2020.
Why ‘one country, two systems’ has failed to guarantee democratic freedoms in Hong Kong
Touré pursued a strategy he called ‘the politics of consensus’, ostensibly enabling him to work with everyone, transcend partisan divisions and advance the public interest.
Jerry John Rawlings remains the most polarizing political figure in Ghana since Kwame Nkrumah
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Is authoritarianism on the rise on the continent? Or is democracy doing well? Nic Cheeseman discusses.
On Nov. 7, when President-elect Joe Biden urged in his address that we “give each other a chance,” his words summoned Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address of 1865.
Charges by President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 election was rigged are challenged by experts in Russian elections, where rigging the outcome is an established way of life.
As the US president made unsubstantiated claims about the vote count, many of the major TV networks cut him off. Is this what’s best for democracy?
Election misinformation typically involves false narratives of fraud that include out-of-context or otherwise misleading images and faulty statistics as purported evidence.
Every election triggers distress for some people. Here are some ways to possibly cope.
The political and social crisis in the US has its roots in twin challenges.
Governments of different political leanings helped forge the Human Rights Commission. To abolish it would diminish accountability and silence an important government critic.
Indonesia’s Legal Aid Institute (LBH) has become an icon of Indonesian civil society and a staunch defender of the public interest.
After a year of unrest Chileans voted decisively on Oct. 25 to replace their constitution, a relic of the military dictator Pinochet. Civilians, half of them women, will write the new constitution.
Experts explain five big threats to this year’s election, from Russian interference to voter intimidation at the polls – plus some tips to make sure every vote is counted.
On Oct. 25 Chile will decide whether to replace its dictatorship-era constitution with a new one written wholly by the Chilean people. The vote shows how protests can change the course of a nation.
With more votes cast before election day than on it, late strategic voting could make all the difference.
The seemingly different debate styles of President Trump and Vice President Pence are examples of the same thing, what a political communication scholar calls ‘authoritarian white masculinity.’
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