Donald Trump has been indicted for crimes in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A legal scholar looks at the law to determine whether he can boycott his upcoming trials.
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Western democracies can best help the world by doing more to live up to their highest ideals and approaching their relations with the rest of the world with humility borne from historical awareness.
On the positive side, good progress has been made on gender equality and fewer people are dying of unnatural causes.
Constructive dialogue is an essential condition for a peaceful political transition in Mali.
Benjamin Netanyahu has helped reshape Israel and the broader world in profound ways. And there’s a dark side to those changes.
Deliberative democracy should have a place in emergency decision-making. Here’s how it works.
The new ECOWAS chairman must focus on strengthening democracy and security in west Africa.
Comic book depictions of superheroines as politicians illustrate how sexism weakens democracy and why comics history is relevant to contemporary politics.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president of Turkey, and Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, are two leaders who have consolidated power using a similar playbook.
A number of judges who considered challenges to anti-LGBTQ legislation passed by state lawmakers in 2023 had strong words for how the laws violated the First Amendment.
The United States has a two-party political system because of single-winner plurality voting.
Studies show, though, that voters don’t like all that nastiness.
President Macky Sall’s previous ambiguity on a third-term bid, perception of a weaponised justice system and arbitrary detention of opposition are the drivers of political violence in Senegal.
Nigeria’s National Assembly must not shirk its oversight responsibilities, focusing on four priorities will be a good place to start.
Social media account of Cambodia’s long-serving leader was deleted amid a spat with Facebook over videoed threats of violence against opposition supporters.
The meaning of the Constitution’s preamble, which begins with the words ‘We the People,’ has evolved over time as voting rights have expanded.
Sierra Leone needs to rebuild public trust in its election by maintaining a completely transparent process.
A survey of nearly 900 politicians in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada reveals that they systematically overestimate their electorate’s conservatism on a range of issues.
It’s official: State courts can review lawmakers’ election-district boundary decisions to ensure they comply with state law.
Economic management, food shortages, health services, infrastructure and education are key issues that may shape how Sierra Leoneans vote on 24 June.
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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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Deputy Vice-chancellor Research, Charles Sturt University
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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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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, Freiburg Germany, University of Freiburg
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Associate Professor of Politics, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
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Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
