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Supporters of Brazil’s suspended president have argued that the push to impeach her was a plot – and it turns out they weren’t far off.
Explaining how the European Parliament and Commission combine to represent the interests of 28 member states.
Assessing the argument that the British people would be better represented by their national parliament.
Follow the money behind the likes of Transparency International and a picture starts to emerge.
There is increasing evidence that voters have lost their faith in politicians and politics. But the way to restore faith is by implementing policies that make economic and social sense.
Concern about youth electoral enrolment is framed the wrong way. It usually suggests that young people are somehow deficient and that they – and not the political culture – are the problem.
Sex workers in South Africa are all potential criminals due to the country’s regressive laws. But their status may change soon, making South Africa the first African country to decriminalise sex work.
As an unpopular vice-president takes the helm, Brazilian politics is mired in distrust, division and corruption.
Economic slowdown and a refugee influx have rattled Europe deeply, and some countries seem to have had enough.
The world seems caught between the competing political ideologies of left and right, with capitalism is caught right in the middle.
When we look at cases of police corruption and abuses, we must ask: who do the police really serve?
Advanced electoral technology could actually work against democracy in the wrong hands.
It should be of concern to politicians that so much discontent is apparent at a time of relative affluence.
A violent attack on a female student at one of South Africa’s prominent universities was not an isolated incident. It told a universal tale of how patriarchy still rules.
The Good African Society Index provides a comparative measure of the quality of society in African states. Governments could use its findings to make targeted policy interventions.
Workplace democracy is declining, but the idea that this is the fault solely of unions or employers is misguided. Widespread reform is needed.
The Australian parliament is not a very representative place – but the bigger problems is the poor quality of its deliberations.
Opponents of democracy often raise the spectre of social disorder. Over the long term, it is only democracy and the rule of law that will provide for the long-lasting peaceful rule of the nation.
The politics that Malcolm Turnbull and the big banks support is one in which people are robbed of their citizenship and reduced to economic functionaries.
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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Associate Professor of Politics, Australian Catholic University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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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 of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
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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
