The nature of elected office combines with the lasting priorities of public opinion to put gun control on the back burner, even in times when it does get massive public attention.
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Metros may be a graveyard for political ambition. But if parties or individuals succeed, the rewards are considerable.
The Australian Labor Party’s failure to turn climate change into a winning campaign issue holds lessons for the UK Labour Party.
Given entrenched characteristics of Canadian electoral politics, the 2019 election is unlikely to deal in any meaningful way with concrete solutions to the important problems of our times.
Nigerians go to the polls in 2019 in an election that the incumbent Muhammadu Buhari wants to win by any means necessary.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s bad behaviour damaged his image and the ANC’s.
In Virginia, suburbanites, city-dwellers and black voters together rebuffed racism as an electoral strategy and handed Dems a huge win. Is this diverse coalition the future of Old Dominion politics?
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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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Distinguished Research Professor, Political Science, Carleton University
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