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A classical political science debate focuses on whether democracy is dependent on development. The director of the Electoral Integrity Project revisits the issue using new data from African elections.
If local councils are bigger and councillors represent more residents, it is important that they focus on understanding their communities’ needs and aspirations, rather than on day-to-day operations.
Can anyone remember when federal politics wasn’t in campaign mode? Politicians, encouraged by the media, have given up the distinction between election season and governing season. The continuous campaign…
Tech companies play a growing civic role in how we operate as a society. We need to be sure we’re happy with that.
America is not a shining example for developing democracies. Many of the electoral issues arise long before a single vote is cast.
Election monitoring has become an international norm for maintaining electoral integrity. A new survey finds a world of difference between the high hopes and dire realities of poll-watching.
African mathematicians and scientists have an important role to play in establishing and protecting a democratic continent.
Primaries are the ultimate American invention. Unfortunately, they are a terrible invention – they actually destroy the political system.
There are two concepts in education theory – the social construction of knowledge and the notion of self-efficacy for development –- that could help build a true democracy.
In the wake of the Arab Spring the international community lauded Tunisia’s political transition to democracy. But a plethora of challenges may threaten democratic consolidation in the country.
Welcome to ‘Erdoğanistan’, where the government knows how to change a newspaper’s tune.
The Flemish historian and writer David Van Reybrouck has recently triggered a minor sensation in the Low Countries by insisting that Western democracies are suffering so much election fatigue (electoral…
Uganda’s president has ruled for three decades – and the opposition is getting stagnant too.
The rise of Islamic State and its declaration of the caliphate can be read as part of a wider story that has unfolded since the formation of modern nation states in the Muslim world.
Australia’s political system would be better off with more ordinary people and fewer career party politicians in the Senate. It would thus be more representative of ordinary Australians, not less.
The Ugandan police refuse to ‘hand over power to the opposition to destabilise the peace we fought for’.
South Africans’ faith in the post-apartheid system of democracy is clearly slipping - and some even suggest that a return to apartheid would be a good thing.
With Iowa out of the way, the first true primary ballot is finally here.
America’s way of choosing its president is marred by murky voting methods, a warped calendar, and too much hype.
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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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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor of Politics, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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