Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance, edited by Alexander Cooley and Jack Snyder, assembles an impressive group of political scientists to critically discuss “the important
On Monday, Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations for the last decade and one of the world’s most effective diplomats, passed away.
Donald Trump’s surprise election shifted expectations: corporate taxes would be lower and trade policies more restrictive. Relative stock prices responded appropriately.
To understand the role of elections in transitions to democracy the first part of this study describes modernization theories of democratization, rooted in the classic accounts by Seymour Martin Lipse
Nancy Fraser’s path-breaking “Rethinking the Public Sphere” brought the term “subaltern counterpublics” into critical theoretical discourse.
Book abstract: Political trust – in government, parliament, or political parties – has taken centre stage in political science for more than half a century, reflecting ongoing concerns with the legiti
Do formal electoral systems determine how far contests meet international standards of electoral integrity?
This report is based on themes derived from various roundtable discussions convened by Professor Stephen Goldsmith in which stakeholders and senior federal leaders discussed the current challenges fac
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