A protest against the outcome of the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria.
Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Good governance is the missing link in Nigeria’s democratic experience since 1999.
Michigan’s redistricting commission consists of ordinary citizens with no special qualifications. A court has disapproved their initial effort.
AP Photo/Carlos Osorio
A battle over the voting districts in Detroit has landed in the Supreme Court, but any ruling may come too late for 2024 state elections.
President Félix Tshisekedi greets his supporters after his re-election in Kinshasa on 31 December 2023.
Photo: Chris Milosi/nadolu via Getty Images
Those who reject recourse to the courts in favour of street demonstrations are taking the wrong approach to the current democratic turning point.
Shutterstock
In 2024, more than 40% of the world’s population is eligible to vote in an election. The scale is unprecedented, but not all elections are made equal. What will it mean for democracy?
Posters of presidential candidate William Lai and his running mate, Hsiao Bi-khim.
Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)
A candidate from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party looks set to win the presidency despite Beijing’s pressure and rhetoric.
Easy does it …
Chris Jobs/Alamy
The evidence is very mixed on how markets are affected by elections, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be irrelevant in 2024.
Sleepyfellow/Alamy
Trends of global power tensions, open war, democratic decline and extreme job market fluctuations are likely to continue in 2024
Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arévalo waves to supporters.
Orlando Estrada/AFP via Getty Images
Anti-democratic actions and government corruption are key reasons many Guatemalans migrate to the US.
Will local election coverage help news organizations win back readers and viewers?
Allkindza/E+/Getty Images
There are lots of ideas about how to save local news. One of them is that increasing coverage of local politics will bring back readers and viewers. Research shows that it doesn’t.
europawahl.
The Treaty of Lisbon celebrates its 15th anniversary on 13 December. Looking back, experts agree that it played a big part in structuring the EU as we know it. It reinforced the role of Commission President…
When Democrats and Republicans fight, do Americans win?
wildpixel/iStock / Getty Images Plus
The deadline to fund the US government is fast approaching, and it will take a Congress seemingly addicted to brinkmanship to keep the government open.
Supporters attend a meeting of the 11 opposition candidates in Antananarivo on 21 October 2023.
Photo by RIJASOLO/AFP via Getty Images
A peaceful power transition would be a sign of a maturing democracy.
Kenya’s supreme court judges annul the results of the 2017 presidential election.
Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images
Two conditions enable courts to take the risk of nullifying the elections of ruling party candidates.
Donald Tusk looks set to lead the governing coalition, in large part thanks to female voters.
Omar Marques/Getty Images
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.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh as Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre looks on at a Tamil heritage month reception in January 2023.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Does the ‘diploma divide’ make politics more about culture than economic inequality?
The intersection of politics and social media is fertile ground for AI-powered disinformation.
AP Photo/John Minchillo
ChatGPT and its ilk give propagandists and intelligence agents a powerful new tool for interfering in politics. The clock is ticking on learning to spot this disinformation before the 2024 election.
An election tribunal recently upheld President Bola Tinubu’s election victory in Nigeria.
AFP via Getty Images
No matter how clean an election is, Nigerian politicians typically challenge the result.
Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba speaks during a trade conference in London in 2018.
Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Gabon is resource rich, but the Bongo family’s continuous rule has been bad news for the country of 2.3 million people.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (left) and Vice President Riek Machar.
Peter Louis/AFP via Getty Images
The political elite have held on to power through power-sharing arrangements rather than the ballot. How will that change?
AAP/EPA/Fazry Ismail
For a quarter of a century Malaysians have campaigned for something better, for greater transparency and accountability, and a more equitable, cross-communal, way of governing Malaysia.