A group of Spanish people have filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for torture they and others experienced under the Franco regime from 1939 to 1975.
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More than three-quarters of the world’s nations engage in torture, which is notoriously difficult to study because it often occurs in secret.
The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor saw civic education as foundational to democracy.
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The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor’s iCivics curriculum has been shown to boost knowledge of the political process.
Supporters of President Julius Maada Bio celebrate his re-election in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 27 June 2023.
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A major concern is whether the recent attacks In Sierra Leone will encourage further division and tension in the country.
Voters in a county election, 1854.
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Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
Sarah Jama at the opening of her Hamilton Centre constituency office, Nov. 14, 2023. Jama opened the office as an Independent MPP after the Ontario NDP kicked her out of caucus for posting a statement in support of Palestinians.
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Censure might occasionally be necessary to preserve the integrity of a parliament, but using it to punish members for their personal views threatens the foundations of democracy.
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Social media platforms are abandoning news – which is bad news for traditional media organisations that have come to rely on them for consumers.
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The ACT Party claims revisiting the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi is about political equality. But removing a Māori cultural dimension to New Zealand’s democracy would have an opposite effect.
Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during his 2021 inauguration.
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After more than 30 years of federalism, ethnic conflict in Ethiopia hasn’t been resolved – but neither has the country disintegrated.
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Today, the government released a review into Australia’s patchwork of a secrecy law system. The proposed changes are a step in the right direction, but there’s so much more work to do.
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When people are pervasively disinformed, the very foundations of democracy can end up on shaky ground.
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The very low public trust in the Ghanaian police suggests a crisis of legitimacy.
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If public administration education is designed and delivered poorly, it sets a course for the systematic destruction of state capability.
A voter marks a ballot during Kentucky’s primary elections in May 2023.
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Political scientists have begun to investigate ways AI can help people understand politics better and get more voices into the public sphere.
Supporters attend a meeting of the 11 opposition candidates in Antananarivo on 21 October 2023.
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A peaceful power transition would be a sign of a maturing democracy.
Donald Tusk looks set to lead the governing coalition, in large part thanks to female voters.
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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.
Christian leaders are influential in Ghanaian lives.
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Christian leaders in Ghana are pushing the envelope of influence in political affairs.
Leadership and likability questions help pollsters predict who might win.
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Data gleaned from even early polls reveals critical clues on how voters view candidates and issues.
There’s trouble under the U.S. Capitol dome.
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The absence of a speaker of the House − a single individual but the linchpin in Congress − could produce a dangerous crisis in America’s constitutional democracy.
President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on developments in South Africa’s strategy to manage the spread of COVID-19.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to foster social cohesion in his speeches during a pandemic that had exposed the nation’s divisions.
One of the roles of an African university is to produce critical and democratic thinkers.
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The African university cannot be created through changing the intellectual lens and basis alone. Political action is key.