Many Americans seem to like seeing communist ideas in action, but have a visceral reaction to the word ‘communism.’ Might it be time to refresh an old ideology with a new set of terms?
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Secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Now new research shows that it was secularisation which came first.
Politicians on the right surely wipe with their left hand; and vice versa?
In an exclusive interview, Professor James Scott discusses anarchism and State resistance by so-called “powerless” actors. Excerpts for The Conversation France.
When it comes to political scandals, context is king.
Party platforms help create parties, not the other way around. A political party expert explains what platforms are, why they matter and for whom.
If a machine can write a speech for a politician, why not go the next step and replace the elected human with a programmed robot?
African academics should be leading the pack when it comes to producing research and information about the continent. So what's holding them back?
This Tuesday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Gender biases continue and women's voices are missing from expert discussions.
Simply by voting in a church, you're more likely to support a conservative cause or candidate.
Students of the social and political sciences can benefit enormously from being taught literature, short stories and watching artistic feature films.
We can draw inspiration from the successes of non-humans, learn from their group decision-making and gain insights from analogies. And with every extinction of a species we lose such possibilities.
Democracy must evolve in response to the threats we pose to the environment and to ourselves. We can learn from how other species make collective decisions, solve problems and survive.
Despite the popularity in other disciplines of inter-species thinking, it’s ignored in democracy research. Why is that? Why can we not conceive of democracy as anything other than uniquely human?
Internationally renowned scholar Benedict Anderson, who helped us understand the formation of modern communities, has died in Indonesia at 79.
Female scholars tend to assign more readings from women authors. But then male instructors assign more of their own work.
Voters in the UK are again looking beyond the traditional two-party system and look set to put paid to a famous proposition of political science.
If you want a desirable ambassadorship, becoming a Foreign Service Officer and earning the relevant degrees – in other words, accumulating experience – might not be the best plan of action.
There was a bit of talk over the last election cycle, expressed in the usual language of political left and right, about returning the pendulum to the “sensible centre”. Sounds a good idea, but what does…
Spoiler alert: This article is not very funny. At first glance, Australian PM Tony Abbott is God’s gift to political comedy. Like George Bush Jr he gives at the personal level: his swimmers and his vocal…
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