The death of Brazilian democracy?
Seven minutes after votes were tallied up last Sunday and Brazil’s left-wing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was declared the winner of the run-off election, his law-enforcement officials and…
Seven minutes after votes were tallied up last Sunday and Brazil’s left-wing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was declared the winner of the run-off election, his law-enforcement officials and…
In April of last year, dozens of students set off from Serbia, intent on making it to Strasbourg, France on bicycles. The aim of the arduous, 13-day transcontinental journey was…
It’s such a derogatory term, ‘culture war’. Of course, it may fall out of use before long, in favour of the simpler concept ‘war’ – at least if we can…
Tomorrow, the outcome of Israel’s most consequential election in a generation may be decided not in Tel Aviv or the settlements, but in the largely Arab cities of Nazareth, Umm…
In a new paper, Brennan and Freiman argue persuasively that: the arguments against laissez-faire capitalism apply in a rather straight way against laissez-faire democracy. This should be a rather startling…
‘I am not proposing that the UK considers rejoining the EU.’ So said Andy Burnham to the voters of Makerfield on 18 May 2026, a month before the by-election that…
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This Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt – a federal state of just over two million in eastern Germany – is of enormous significance. For the first time, the right-populist Alternative…
This paper examines the conventional view that redistribution is central to the democratization process using data from stock markets. Consistent with this view, democratizations have a large, negative impact on…
In the wake of the Brexit vote in 2016, it soon became received wisdom across the West that the UK’s exit from the European Union was a unique event. Other…