The battle between liberals and conservatives continues to split the Liberal Party, but its past heroes would find the ideological division puzzling.
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The Democratic Alliance is potentially in a good position to challenge the ANC, which governs South Africa, for power.
There’s a new way to reveal America’s political divide. One researcher finds the differences between groups that are normally crudely described as ‘right-left’ can be better explained by word clouds.
As the National Party looks to rebuild under a new leader, it needs to embrace its minority status, establish clearly what it stands for, and remain true to those ideals.
From a certain perspective, we’re already on the road to practicing a ‘progressive eugenics’ not a million miles away from what was imagined historically.
A new book attempts to cloak Tony Abbott in a political philosophy, but is not entirely convincing.
Malcolm Turnbull’s claim that Robert Menzies’ party was meant to be one of the ‘sensible centre’ has some validity – but it may also be that that centre has shifted significantly, too.
A bastion of liberal values in an illiberal climate.
A move that could shut an independent university in Budapest poses fundamental questions about European values.
Financial crises and soaring inequality fueled the populist backlashes that threaten neoliberalism’s core principles of free markets and free people. The world needs a new narrative to counteract it.
University authorities in South Africa have agreed to most fees protesters’ demands. Yet, the protesters keep moving the goalposts. Do they want more than fees to fall?
Shifts in southeast Asian countries’ political leadership has led to another worrying region-wide shift: away from liberalism.
In office, to what extent has New South Wales Premier Mike Baird acted according to liberal principles?
Liberal forces such as free markets, internationalism and tolerance have helped shape the current world yet appear to be on the wane.
The decline in Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity and the increasingly explicit critiques of his leadership have raised the question of whether the Liberal Party has a unifying ideology.
A vote on whether same-sex couples can get married is discriminatory because it applies a standard to them that does not apply to heterosexual couples.
Republicans’ problem with the pope is not that he’s too liberal on issues such as capitalism, it’s that he’s too conservative.
If Reclaim Australia were rallying Muslims, the liberal media would examine its religious inspirations. Yet the media treat its supporters as disgruntled individuals rather than Christian representatives.
Learning about social psychology can make you more liberal. I know this because it is exactly what happened to me.
Efforts to address Africa’s developmental challenges are hampered by features of the global governance architecture that undermine national policy and international cooperation.
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of History and Politics, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Emerita Professor of Politics, Adelaide University
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of International Studies, La Trobe University
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