People across Latin America are demanding greater political participation. Some countries, including Colombia and Chile, have responded by involving citizens in the making of their constitutions.
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Like all criminal defendants, Trump will enjoy the protection that a jury will offer from abuse by government prosecutors.
The quality of public debate over free speech in higher education matters. And the debate right now gets the facts all wrong.
Courts have no army or police force to enforce their decisions. Their power rests on their legitimacy in the public eye. How does scandal affect that?
It will take a lot of strategic ingenuity to fight the rise of populism. And it will get harder to do so as politicians rig the game with rules designed to reduce voting.
The proportional representation system has long outlived its relevance. Its negative extremes abound in local government.
We need a richer account of democracy within which to locate the Voice, to lift the quality of public debate about it.
Brinkmanship means coming to the edge of potential default on the US debt ceiling. Are lawmakers negotiating the debt limit representing the wishes and interests of their voters?
Stan Grant’s new book, The Queen is Dead, is revealing in terms of his decision to step down from public life. ‘I have been reminded what it is to come from the other side of history,’ he writes.
Turkish voters will be heading back to the polls on May 28 after no candidates managed to gain more than half the votes. But incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was boosted by a stronger-than-expected showing.
Israel may no longer be a fledgling state – but it has yet to overcome the basic contradiction that has defined it from the very beginning.
Finding the right balance between media freedom and limits remains one of the greatest challenges modern democracies face.
Ghana’s regions have no autonomy, yet creating new ones is contentious as it threatens the interests of chiefs and political parties.
Who are the Proud Boys, what do they want and is there a path back into society for these extremists?
Free speech is under attack from both sides of the political spectrum.
Why addressing inequality in ‘left-behind’ places requires more than ‘levelling up’.
A threshold has been crossed, with a pessimistic outlook becoming more dominant than an optimistic one.
Omar al-Bashir fell in 2019, but his military successors have preserved much of the authoritarian infrastructure of his regime.
Expulsion of the German ambassador could be a way of warning other embassies, especially France, to steer clear of Chadian politics and support for the opposition.
We often talk about the American political landscape as if it were a line – Democrats on the left, Republicans on the right. Two political scientists say that view doesn’t reflect reality.
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