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Our research highlights three key reasons for declining trust in experts, and how to regain their authority in future.
Cities are where solutions are found – but also where perils are amplified when we fail to act.
It will take a lot of strategic ingenuity to fight the rise of populism. And it will get harder to do so as politicians rig the game with rules designed to reduce voting.
We often view common sense as an authority of collective knowledge that is universal and constant.
The Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Congress means Trump’s European allies need to carefully gauge their support for him.
Fear has important consequences for how people vote, what they spend their money on, who they consider to be part of their communities, and who they treat as outsiders.
Anti-LGBT sentiments are on the rise around the world, and Canada is not immune to the tide. Now is the time for us to speak out and denounce anti-LGBTQ actions and rhetoric.
China’s Xi Xinping had trialled his COVID lockdown measures on what he callously called the ‘virus’ of the Uighurs, writes Stan Grant. COVID lockdowns are now over, but the trace of tyranny remains.
There’s a lot at stake in the May 14 presidential election. Will Turkey continue to be ruled by a populist Islamist government or return to a path of secular democratization?
Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative.
When former President Donald Trump summoned his fans to protest over what he called his imminent indictment, a scholar of democracy saw it as an autocratic move.
The political content in our personal feeds not only represents the world and politics to us. It creates new, sometimes “alternative”, realities.
The newest class of right-wing populists aims to not only dismantle the guardrails of democracy, but also the most fundamental principles of the rule of law. We must prepare.
The goal of the labour movement is to advance the interests of workers everywhere. Nativist narratives about defending Canada could explain Pierre Poilievre’s popularity among some union members.
Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
Populism has been unleashed. We’re beyond the stop-gap measures of small-step reform or pragmatic centrist liberalism. What’s next? We’re about to find out.
Research finds that while some anti-immigration attitudes persist in Canada, no provinces significantly stand out for being more hostile to immigrants.
Stable coalitions will depend on strong democratic values being embedded among political elites.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Politics, Griffith University
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Professor of Political Science, INSEAD
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Professor emeritus, Department of Politics, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Political Science and Founding Director, International Studies Program, Burman University
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Sessional Instructor, Political Science, University of Guelph
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
