Amid Russia’s full-scale invasion, the timing of future Ukrainian elections has recently come into the spotlight of international and Ukrainian media. Regular, competitive, free and fair elections are fundamental pillars… Read more »
When Gazans were polled by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Palestine’s most authoritative opinion-research firm, just before the aborted P.A. legislative elections in May, 2021, Hamas barely… Read more »
“Democracy’s Surprising Resilience” is the focus of an article in the National Endowment for Democracy‘s Journal of Democracy. Steve Levitsky and Lucan Way write that authoritarians have found it difficult to… Read more »
In our 21st century, every upcoming election seems like the most important in history. The upcoming Polish one is no exception, notes analyst Dalibor Roháč. In the view of opposition… Read more »
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be gloating* over the Hamas attack on Israel but it has entered a serious domestic crisis that threatens the regime’s long-term survival and that… Read more »
The challenges of holding a vote in wartime are both small and big—and often unexpected, says analyst Fabrice Deprez. As discussions heat up over whether Ukraine should hold elections in wartime,… Read more »
The Iranian regime seeks to expand its Islamic revolution globally and continues its push in Latin America. As part of that strategy, it is promoting the memoirs of its leaders… Read more »
Will artificial intelligence end democracy? In a new special package on AI and democracy, top experts weigh in on what a fast-developing technology that promises superhuman intelligence means for humanity… Read more »
China’s Communist regime employs a variety of deceptive and coercive methods in its efforts to influence the international information environment, according to a new analysis. Beijing’s information manipulation spans the… Read more »
A new “alliance of democracy defenders” is imperative to counter the intensifying cooperation among members of a global “autocratic network,” Venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner Leopoldo López contends… Read more »