With the two presidential candidates running neck-and-neck, this election has stakes beyond Brazil. The growing power of US big tech is also in the spotlight.
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Prediction markets are becoming mainstream, bringing gambling risks and a novel source of political information to public life.
On The Conversation Weekly, why Israel’s political magician might be out of tricks and how a former IDF chief could be the one to upstage him.
Serbians will go to the polls in October for what looks set to be their closest national election in years.
Economic growth may have returned to NZ, but lifting living standards will require more than a cyclical recovery. What should voters be looking for in policies?
Voters need to become better at questioning what they see, without automatically disbelieving it.
A political scientist analyzes the uncertain outlook for this year’s elections and the risks their results pose to governability and democracy in Brazil.
A midterm election is coming. In the face of wavering voter trust – some of it driven by forces outside their control – what can election officials actually do to keep elections credible?
The race between the incumbent president and Flávio Bolsonaro is a part of a decades-long right-left split in the country over the meaning of the nation.
For American conservatives of the Cold War era, red was the color of communists and the mistrusted American left. Now, it’s the color of the GOP, while Democrats are blue. How did this happen?
Russia’s 2026 parliamentary elections will take place over three days, starting Sept. 18.
Juan Orlando Hernández’s escape from legal accountability at home and abroad point to the larger challenges of democracy building under the shadow of US power.
After ten months of investigation, the Banco Master case points to banker Daniel Vorcaro managing to take the country’s political system hostage.
Despite being enfranchised, electoral turnout among non-citizens in Sweden remains low.
Sweden’s election is on September 13. In Brisbane, Adelaide, Auckland and Hyderabad, citizens voted inside the furniture giant’s blue-and-yellow stores.
The AfD received by far the most amount of votes in Saxony-Anhalt, falling marginally short of an absolute majority.
The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is poised to top the poll in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Zelensky has so far resisted calls to hold an election.
Political parties might choose their election ads but increasingly it’s tech companies’ algorithms that decide who sees them.
The bigger movement in the data over the past quarter-century is at the other end of the age spectrum: A reliable base of older Conservative Party voters is largely gone.
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Assistant Professor, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Kentucky
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Associate Researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; University of Toronto
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
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Lecturer and Teacher, Department of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University
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Executive Director of the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, American University