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The Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford has launched the Centre for Democratic Resilience , a new research centre dedicated to understanding and promoting the resilience of liberal democracy in Europe, the United States, and beyond.

What role do the candidates for chancellor actually play for voters? How important is TikTok for young people in particular when it comes to deciding who to vote for? How dangerous are disinformation

The 2024 general election was the first in the UK's history to be run under a system of voter ID. When heading to the polling station, people could only vote if they proved their identity first.

"What kind of society do we want to live in?" This is the main topic of the Germany Monitor 2024 , which has just been published.

A look back at a round table at the École supérieure d'études internationales on global issues in 2025 The Year of Living Dangerously .

Science diplomacy can transcend the geopolitical arena, building trust and bridging gaps between nations, emphasises Joël Mesot.

Professor Evan Lieberman describes new research in which he and colleagues find a sharp partisan divide over providing aid to poor nations. Does the United States have a "moral responsibility" for providing aid to poor nations - which have a significantly smaller carbon footprint and face catastrophic climate events at a much higher rate than wealthy countries? A study published Dec.

Political scientist Ariel White studies people on the margins of U.S. politics to see if they might participate more fully in our system of government.

As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.

People motivated by power and the desire to influence others are more likely to share fake news posts on social media, according to a new study led by a UCL researcher. In a series of experiments, power-motivated social media users were found to share more misinformation on a simulated social media platform, and fake news constituted a larger proportion of what they shared.

The study, conducted in the US, found that mothers take on seven in ten (71%) of all'household mental load tasks. From choosing gifts and sending cards to planning Christmas dinner, the holiday season can feel like an avalanche of mental to-do lists. New research from the University of Bath and the University of Melbourne, published in the Journal of Marriage & Family , reveals that mothers overwhelmingly carry this "mental load" while dads often take a back seat.

A majority of people in Germany consider the influence of science on politics to be too small.