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Biden appeals to Americans to 'preserve our democracy' - NBC News

President Joe Biden framed the decision to end his re-election campaign as a "defense of democracy" in an Oval Office address Wednesday ...

Why so few women are in political leadership, and five actions to ...

In one of the biggest electoral years in recent history, 107 countries have never had a woman Head of State. In 2024, women held only 27 per ...

Dealing with propaganda, misinformation and fake news

Propaganda, misinformation and fake news have the potential to polarise public opinion, to promote violent extremism and hate speech and, ultimately, to ...

Global State of Democracy Report 2022: Forging Social Contracts in ...

To group countries for analytical purposes, the GSoD Indices also classify countries into three political regime types—democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian ...

Politics - Wikipedia

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the ...

Dialogues in Democracy | Michigan Publishing

These tensions erupt every four years during the presidential election, but they also shape our daily experiences of democracy outside the voting booth. This ...

Blog | Democracy International

Democracy International Expresses Condolences on the Death of Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima, Government Officials, and Civilians. Democracy International ...

The effects of different democratic qualities on climate change ...

Still, democracy is the preferable system of government when social and economic development is the goal. Democracies are better at ensuring gender equality and ...

Rethinking Political Polarization - Oxford Academic

I seek to circumscribe the use and reconstruct the core of political polarization as an instance of extraordinary democratic conflict.

Combating Corruption and Promoting Good Governance

Corruption is one of the most pervasive types of crime: it fuels transnational crime, wastes public resources, destabilizes countries, and impedes good ...

Political Clientelism in Democracies - Oxford Bibliographies

Clientelism has been a central theoretical framework within political behavior and political economy used by political scientists to understand the behavior of ...

Building Democracy for All - EdTech Books

Building Democracy for All is an interactive, multimodal, multicultural, open access e-book for teaching and learning key topics in United States Government ...

6.1 The Nature of Public Opinion - American Government 3e

Most citizens base their political opinions on their beliefs and their attitudes, both of which begin to form in childhood. Beliefs are closely held ideas that ...

The Interplay Between Online Public Opinion and Media Coverage

Although media coverage is the primary source of information for netizens, it does not set frames for online discourse. Noticeably, significant associations ...

Good Governance: Rule of Law, Transparency and Accountability

Improved governance requires an integrated, long-term strategy built upon cooperation between government and citizens. It involves both participation and ...

THE GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS OF POPULISM ON DEMOCRACY

Through this lens, the report examines the impact of populism on four democratic institutions, which consist of judicial independence, political rights of ...

8 Questions About Democracy Answered - Britannica

Democracy is a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership, and major undertakings of a state or other polity are directly or indirectly decided ...

Combating Information Manipulation: A Playbook for Elections and ...

Civil society actors, journalists, governments, election management bodies and other democratic actors often end up scrambling to respond in the ...

DEMOCRACY: ITS PRINCIPLES AND ACHIEVEMENT

Democratic government is based on the will of the people, expressed regularly through free and fair elections. Democracy has as its founda- tion ...

Safeguarding Democracy Against Disinformation

The new digital media policy roadmap we layout would steer clear of vague rules that empower governments to define “good” or “bad” content.