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This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies…
Instead of fixating on polling and pundits, you might as well go straight to the bookies.
Our global newsroom responds to the first results in the US presidential election. We hear from scholars in the UK, US, Australia and France.
When it comes to Iowa, separating reality from rhetoric is all but impossible.
Religious right winger Ted Cruz has won the Republican Iowa Caucuses with 27.7% of the votes, to 24.3% for Donald Trump and 23.1% for the establishment favourite Marco Rubio. Ben Carson was a distant fourth…
Iowa has voted. Here’s how things look heading into New Hampshire.
The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare us all. The disease has spread “explosively” throughout the Americas, with 32…
Media agencies are fascinated with polls because until there is an election, they have to report something.
America’s presidential election is finally about to formally kick off – with a very strange event indeed.
Get up to speed on the first-in-the nation voting which takes place on February 1.
What’s the best predictor of which candidate will win the presidential nomination. The winner of the Iowa caucus? The winner of the New Hampshire primary? Actually neither is as good a predictor as the…
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Professor of Political Science, Grinnell College
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Lead Academic Teacher - Politics & Social Science (Swinburne Online), Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of History & Head of the National School of Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor in International Politics, City, University of London
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Nottingham Trent University
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Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor of Politics, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Political Science, Emory University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
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