America’s way of choosing its president is marred by murky voting methods, a warped calendar, and too much hype.
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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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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management; Co-director of the Bioeconomy Institute; Director C-CHANGE, Iowa State University
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Docteure en science politique, Learning Planet Institute (LPI)
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Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
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