Early women parliamentary candidates found it harder to make unique appeals to represent the 'woman's point of view' over time because of increasing national control over campaigning, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2023
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Political violence is eroding the overall health of democracy in the United States, according to more than 100 global scholars surveyed for a new report.
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2023
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Technology nearly derailed the conclusion of the 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission could not fulfill its promise to transmit election results from the polling units on its ...
Political science
Mar 3, 2023
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US president Joe Biden is clearly frustrated about the focus on his age. In mid-December last year he reportedly vented to allies, saying: "You think I don't know how fucking old I am?" But, as attention turns to the 2024 ...
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the "myth of the blitz"—the idea of a society that pulled together in the second world war to withstand the bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2022
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Thousands of newspapers across the U.S. have shuttered or downsized in recent years, leaving many communities without—or with highly diminished—local news outlets. The collapse of local journalism and rise of 'news deserts," ...
Economics & Business
Mar 21, 2022
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A dissertation from the University of Gothenburg, for which the author studied presidential elections around the world among other things, shows that the closer the race appeared to be in the opinion polls before the elections, ...
Political science
Feb 23, 2022
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Fears over job security and quality of work for a new class of disaffected citizens—the 'precariat' – could explain the rise of popular extremist parties across Europe, according to a new study.
Economics & Business
Jan 31, 2022
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Support for populist parties and politicians, and agreement with populist sentiment, has diminished during the pandemic, according to a "mega-dataset" taking in attitudes of over half a million people across 109 countries ...
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2022
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Long-running conflicts, such as that between Israel and Palestine, are inflamed by the political process itself as politicians adopt tough 'hawkish' policies to get themselves re-elected, according to a new study.
Political science
Jan 14, 2022
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