Democracy

REUTERS/Mark Makela - Voting machine operator Robin Coffee-Ruff hands a sticker to a voter who cast his ballot.

How We Rise

How Black Americans saved Biden and American democracy

Rashawn Ray

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks about health care and the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris listens during a brief news conference at the theater serving as his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 10, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Campaigns & Elections

Exit polls show both familiar and new voting blocs sealed Biden’s win

William H. Frey

November 12, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Ruby Lenora casts her in-person vote on her 73rd birthday at a polling site at the Milwaukee Public Library?s Washington Park location in Milwaukee, on the first day of in-person voting in Wisconsin, U.S., October 20, 2020. Wisconsin?s early voting period, known as absentee in-person voting, began October 20. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo

Campaigns & Elections

It’s not just Trump and Biden: State and local ballot measures could have a big impact on community recovery

Amy Liu and Reniya Dinkins

Saturday, October 31, 2020

A girl stands near a wall covered with Placards of Cameroon President Paul Biya, who runs for reelection scheduled for October 7, in Yaounde, Cameroon October 5, 2018. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC1BA30D24C0

Africa in Focus

Threats to democracy in Africa: The rise of the constitutional coup

John Mukum Mbaku

Friday, October 30, 2020

Reports

China

Democracy first: How the US can prevail in the political systems competition with the CCP

Patrick W. Quirk, David O. Shullman, and Johanna Kao

September 2020

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Democracy

Democracy after coronavirus: Five challenges for the 2020s

Célia Belin and Giovanna De Maio

August 2020

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law during a hearing on "Online Platforms and Market Power", in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS

Telecommunications & Internet

Utilities for democracy: Why and how the algorithmic infrastructure of Facebook and Google must be regulated

Josh Simons and Dipayan Ghosh

August 2020

VIETNAM - HO-CHI-MINH THE BOULIMICPortrait of the metropolis Ho Chi Minh City which is experiencing an exponential economic boom.VIETNAM - HO-CHI-MINH LA BOULIMIQUEPortrait de la métropole Ho-Chi-Minh Ville qui vit un boom économique exponentiel.NO USE FRANCE

Southeast Asia

Decoupling governance and democracy: The challenge of authoritarian development in Southeast Asia

Thomas Pepinsky

July 2020

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) poses for a selfie with House Democratic women of the 116th Congress

Essay

100 years on, politics is where the U.S. lags the most on gender equality

Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Blog Posts

Sep 29, 2020; Cleveland, OH, USA; Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden debates President Donald Trump in the first Presidential debate in the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion at the Cleveland Clinic, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, in Cleveland. Mandatory Credit: Meg Vogel/Cincinnati Enquirer via USA TODAY NETWORK

Order from Chaos

Between restoration and change

Thomas Wright

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Ambassador of Germany to Russia Geza Andreas von Geyr is seen outside the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Order from Chaos

Germany is well placed to lead a tougher EU response to Russia

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Protesters wait in line by the thousands to be let into socially distanced searing areas near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall before the beginning of civil rights march organized by Al Sharpton to call attention to systemic racism and police violence after the May police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The night before The Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks, protests consumed the blocks surrounding the White House, as President Trump gave his presidential nomination acceptance speech with sounds from noisy demonstrations in the background. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The Avenue

Protesting is as important as voting

Andre M. Perry and Carl Romer

Friday, August 28, 2020

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Experts

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Multimedia

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a news conference following a meeting with international economic and financial organisations at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany May 20, 2020, on the effects of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Odd Andersen/Pool via REUTERS

Germany

Merkel’s pandemic moment

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Gideon Rachman

The Rachman Review

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

India

The mudslinging campaign and Barkha Dutt on the “fear” election of 2019

Tanvi Madan, Milan Vaishnav, and Sadanand Dhume

Grand Tamasha

Friday, April 24, 2020

France

What’s driving populism’s rise on both sides of the Atlantic?

David Dollar and Célia Belin

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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Reports

Disinformed democracy: The past, present, and future of information warfare

Webinar: Democracy’s defenders — American diplomacy in the age of COVID-19

Panel Discussion | The crisis of democratic capitalism

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