The people of Haiti are furious at their leaders and want to have their say – but the outside world has other priorities.
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Data shows that voters organizing ballot initiatives on issues like marijuana use and plastic bag bans are doing more than creating DIY laws – they are spreading happiness.
The dwindling ranks of those who line up to defend America’s system are able to do so only if they view it through a prism of its lofty 18th-century ideals, rather than 21st-century realities.
The China Model features political meritocracy at the top, democracy at the bottom and experimentation in between. The West can learn from the best of Chinese leadership, even if it is authoritarian.
For better or for worse, various countries around the world charted a new course last year. What lies ahead for 2016?
Many works published on decolonisation originate from Ngugi wa Thiongo’s idea of decolonising the African mind. Imperialism, he writes, has left its mark on the minds of the previously colonised.
‘Sortition’ could offer a way to reinvigorate our democracy – and it’s already being trialled.
Political conventions may be challenged and redefined by every new government, but it is their role in promoting political accountability that ensures the health of our democracy.
With more and more street artists partnering with corporations, it’s important that they don’t compromise their moral standing to earn a living.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD has won Myanmar’s elections in a landslide, but must lead the transition to democratic rule carrying the hopes of tens of millions of voters who expect life to be transformed.
Western leaders insist that engaging with authoritarian regimes promotes human rights. They are missing the point.
With the opposition party on course to win a historic election, it’s time to get serious on some difficult questions.
TPP negotiations have been covered in secrecy, and now as details have been released it only shows a wider democratic deficiency.
Myanmar is holding elections, but like the many other authoritarian regimes that do so, it isn’t for democratic reasons and regime change remains highly unlikely.
University students in South Africa have shown the potential of mass mobilisation to influence policy in advancing justice for their constitutional democratic rights.
There is a growing canyon now separating politics as understood and practiced by political authorities from the political practices of everyday people.
Only radical change can prevent civil war in a country fractured by the actions of its own government.
Ivory Coast’s democratic election in 2015 may be another example of good news out of Africa that is ignored by the global media.
By challenging the courts, King Dalindyebo is testing the degree of impunity with which traditional leaders can get away.
Why has the United States, the great engine of democratisation, advanced a pact that is silent on a defining theme of its foreign policy?
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