We know that social media platforms have an incentive to promote whatever gets the most attention, regardless of its authenticity. We're more reluctant to admit that the same is true of people.
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The more candidates that there are, the likelier it is that voters cannot come to a consensus on the best candidate.
Political scientists concern themselves with ideas of democracy. Now that Canada's PM has accepted the finding of genocide, this changes how and what political scientists need to discuss.
A controversial extradition law has been suspended in Hong Kong after more than a week of mass public resistance. Hong Kong's legal system is one of its few remaining areas of autonomy from China.
Though the effects were less this time, voters across the globe should remain vigilant against disinformation campaigns and election system hacking.
Those who want President Trump out of office should forget about the 25th Amendment; it won’t work as they hope or believe. The amendment is a complex law that – by design – is very hard to use.
An American media scholar studying in Australia looks at the protections offered by the two countries for investigative reporting, raising crucial questions about journalism's role in democracy.
Providing the first empirical analysis of the court's performance in high-profile cases between 2004 and 2016, our research indicates that its independence from the government remains intact.
This week's raids on media show our democracy at its darkest.
What can be the road ahead for Kosovo and Serbia under the EU patronage?
This week's raids on journalists and media outlets show not just the risk to those doing work in the public interest, but the potentially chilling effect it will have on more such journalism being brought to light.
On June 1 1949, black South African church members voted to choose their leaders in an unusual poll.
Reporters and editors in Rwanda saw themselves as unifiers, and that meant working to promote unity and reconciliation.
Big tech companies compete over who can gather the most intelligence on their users. Countries like Russia and China turn this information against their citizens.
How does reporting on the environment promote democracy? A US journalism professor describes conditions in the republic of Georgia, where the media isn't equipped to cover issues like pollution.
Charisma may be a necessary trait for getting elected – but it also discourages voters from independent moral deliberation about a potential leader's qualifications to govern.
An unprecedented survey of US GIs that began in 1941, preserved on microfilm, provides a raw and uncensored story of average Americans grappling with both national ideals and practical necessities.
New research reveals that many 19- to 24-year-olds are highly concerned about how organisations collect and use their data. This could be the beginning of a significant push back.
Anti-caste and Dalit movements have emerged as a voice to count on as India's 2019 legislative elections unfold.
How can a community decide the direction it should go, if its members cannot even agree on where they are? Two political scientists say the growing phenomenon of dueling facts threatens democracy.
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Assistant Professor in Politics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor of Politics, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Governance and Director of Democracy 2025 - bridging the trust divide at Old Parliament House, University of Canberra
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Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
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Lecturer, Public Policy and Political Communications, University of Melbourne
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
