Social media design influences human behavior, and the Big Tech platforms use it to boost profits – and their owners’ political agendas. Some smaller platforms are using design to support democracy.
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Formerly part of the Soviet Union, Georgia was seen as moving towards democracy, but that is quickly being eroded.
Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.
British voters are moving away from the two-party system, but their electoral system hasn’t kept up.
Ten years after Donald Trump launched the Make America Great Again movement, a poll offers some insight into what the slogan means to Republicans and Democrats.
Reclaiming the true meaning of calling can rebuild trust and renew systems from the inside out.
International involvement must be limited to building up Sudan’s capacity to solve its governance problems.
As community foundations across Canada have realized, local news is crucial for democracy. They’re supporting local journalism in new ways.
Pre- and post-election surveys in South Africa show a surge in optimism and pro-democratic sentiment.
China’s military assistance to Mali could be damaging.
What would the United States be without its states? A better, more democatic country, says one legal scholar.
Protests can serve two opposing purposes. They can represent a mass movement in favor of democracy – and simultaneously serve a nascent dictator in their efforts to undermine democracy.
Europeans are still struggling to adjust to new conditions – and the conditions to which they need to adjust also continue to change dramatically.
In its governance structure, the modern workplace operates as a kind of mini dictatorship. But what if there were an actual legal right to workplace democracy?
Children absorb the power dynamics and gender roles they observe and this shapes their understanding of who a political leader should be.
Autocrats today are polished, appear mainstream and use the media, not overt repression or violence, to gain public support and consolidate power. They govern through a ‘spin dictatorship.’
Overshadowing almost everything in the country is the impeachment of the former president for abuse and the ensuing political paralysis.
A campaign hat and a partisan speech are unusual in a military setting in the United States.
Former Harvard president Larry Summers says a ban on foreign students would cause damage not just to the university but to the US’s image globally.
Political leaders in El Salvador, the Philippines and Israel, among other places, have also positioned judges as the enemy of the people.
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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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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Adjunct professor, Charles Sturt University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
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Nonresident Research Fellow, Rice University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand