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🎭 Why Africa needs non-adversarial democracy 

May 29, 2025

🌈 Who gets a hearing? Intersectionality, NGOs, and political access 

April 30, 2025

The democratic purpose of social media: empowering civil society

April 25, 2025

🌊 Radical movements' social media strategies go local

April 1, 2025

Limited shift in public opinion on same-sex marriage in Japan

February 10, 2025
January 16, 2025

🌊 There are no independent regulators under populist rule

Rafael Labanino Illiberal populists politicise regulatory agencies. Under populist governments, regulatory agencies engage primarily with interest groups which enjoy close connections to the ruling parties. This is bad news for democratic quality and the quality of governance, write Rafael Labanino and Michael Dobbins Read more
December 6, 2024

💊 Trump's re-election can help us make democracy work better

Titus Alexander Trump may have scored a resounding win, but can he deliver the changes Americans voted for? Titus Alexander argues that the new political order challenges political science to help citizens make democracy work better. Read more
December 3, 2024

♟️Autocracies are giving more women political power, but that isn't necessarily good news for democracy

Eda Keremoglu International observers generally praise the rise in female politicians in autocracies, but the inclusion of women in politics can also be a means by which autocrats polish their image without real reform. Janina Beiser-McGrath and Eda Keremoğlu caution that authoritarian states do not necessarily become more democratic, even if women gain real power in their cabinets. Read more
December 2, 2024

Donald Trump’s Machiavellian philosophy

Ruairidh Brown As Trump returns to the White House, what, exactly, is the ideology of Trumpism? Ruairidh Brown argues that Trump’s America First agenda is, at its core, Machiavellian Read more
October 30, 2024

💊 The power of a good example: social models offer the best future for political science

Titus Alexander Academic political science is a cottage industry compared with tendentious large-scale social experiments conducted by big businesses, governments and election strategists. Titus Alexander argues that political scientists need to recognise the power of institutions as social models and real-time experiments to help people solve problems and meet their needs better. Read more

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