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A coup may be a quick fix for a problem leader, but history shows that coups beget more coups.
Branch stacking raises broader questions about the health of our political parties. There are alternative forms of representation that could bring ordinary Australians into the political system again.
Changing the voting age from 18 would allow more young citizens to make voting a habit before they lose interest in politics.
Some MPs will be be allowed to attend the chamber via video link this week. This is a ‘big leap’ when it comes to improving access to parliament.
In a country with 135 ethnic minorities, democratic elections have little meaning if the stateless, persecuted Rohingya people continue to be ethnically cleansed.
There is a trend in policy advocacy that pushes back progress and limits women’s freedom of choice.
Elections belong to citizens, not politicians. There is no reason to deny or unduly delay this basic democratic right.
The New Zealand military has been found in breach of its basic democratic duties.Only a law change will restore trust.
After months of delay in publishing a new report on Russian interference in British democracy, what can be done to protect it in future?
The absence of trust in a nation’s leader and government jeopardizes an effective response to a health crisis. It also creates a political crisis, a loss of faith in democracy.
The stalemate in Tshwane is a manifestation of coalition arrangements that serve the partisan interests of parties, to the detriment of citizens.
A law to fast-track development consents is being fast-tracked itself. Before it’s too late, politicians should insist on greater protection against long-term environmental damage.
The media have mad a significant contribution to the current crisis of democracy - now, they must play a vital role in any democratic revival.
By many measures, America is failing, and its people - in fact, the world - need the nuclear and military giant to turn itself around.
Unrest in the US looks familiar to Latin Americans, who are accustomed to resisting undemocratic governments – and to their protest movements being met with violent suppression.
The country must urgently address the politics of ethnicity before it can move towards a workable democracy.
Though many in the US are disoriented and disheartened by the lack of an effective federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, American thinker John Dewey would not have been surprised.
Pandemic devastation surrounds it on all sides, but tiny Uruguay has COVID-19 under control – just the latest win for a country that’s always stood out.
Surviving COVID-19 means reconsidering what type of world we want to build and live in, together. We can no longer feign being a democracy that is not democratic.
Top contributors
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Senior lecturer in democracy studies, University of Canberra
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Deputy Vice-chancellor Research, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Politics, Australian Catholic University
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Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
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Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
