In Uganda, young people’s knowledge of national political institutions, and on how they would claim and advocate for their rights as citizens, was remarkably low.
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Homer and Aeschylus turned to the divine to write their happy endings. But no gods are conspiring above the US, ready to swoop down and save humankind from itself.
The Electoral College ignores a key democratic principle: one person, one vote.
The transition between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has formally begun, yet the outgoing president still refuses to concede. How far can he go and has such a situation been experienced in American history?
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.
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.
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