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This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...

President Biden has seemingly decided that highlighting threats to democracy will help him get some traction in the 2024 election, using his remarks last Thursday at the McCain Institute in Arizona to ...

“Democracy, once taken for granted as an inalienable civic right … now seemed little more than a quaint historical memory amid universal bureaucratic rule of autocratic monarch, oligarchic group, or ...

David Stasavage is the dean for the social sciences and the Julius Silver Professor in New York University’s department of politics and an affiliated professor in NYU School of Law. He is the author ...

A new study has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins and history of democracy and democratic practices. An international team of scholars has uncovered evidence that collective ...

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One of the characteristics of human societies everywhere is stratification. Move anywhere in the world and you will find out that there were three broad classes of people everywhere, the rulers at the ...