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What fiction tells us about Britain's relations to the European Union Eurosceptic dreams of an independent UK and nightmares of faceless EU bureaucrats are not confined to the world of politics, public opinion and the media.

Expertise, familiarity and likeability are pitted against 10 reasons to vote no in the pamphlets for and against the Voice to Parliament, writes Associate Professor Tom van Laer from the University of Sydney Business School.

New research from the Universities of Warwick and Newcastle could make e-voting more secure, accessible, and trustworthy for future elections.

Philip Stark, a statistics professor at UC Berkeley, is a man of varied interests. From expertise on election auditing to encyclopedic recall about edible plants, trail running has long linked his pursuits and his passion for spreading that knowledge.

Consumer sentiment lifted 9% in June, reaching its highest level in four months, a sign of greater optimism as inflation eased and policymakers resolved the debt ceiling crisis.

Theresa Paola Stawski, a political scientist from Würzburg, has investigated how well the states of the world function.

For some young scholars, this perspective on the nature of a Ph.D. may diminish the significance of our contributions to the scientific community.

In an unexpected affirmation of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court ruled this month that congressional voting maps in Alabama would dilute the power of Black voters.

Who will win the next UK General Election? With January 2025, the date by which the election must be held, just 18 months away, the public sphere is again focusing on this question. But before we can forecast who will live in 10 Downing Street, we need to take a step back and ask another question: who votes? Or more importantly, who does not? By Dr Leo Azzollini, P ostdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford's Institute for New Economic Thinking, Department of Social Policy, and Nuffield College.

Efforts to tackle major issues facing the UK, including the nation's health and climate change, are being hampered because politicians often ignore the existing evidence when setting policies, according to Dame Theresa Marteau, a public health expert at the University of Cambridge.

With democracy in trouble, understanding the reason why could hardly be more important. Democracy is in trouble.

Award from the Center for International Studies supports women pursuing doctorates in international affairs.

Political scientist and sociologist Vesla Weaver listens to and researches people whose experience of democracy, citizenship, and government is completely different from that of those not living unde

The expansion of hydropower generation often leads to conflicts of interest, both in Switzerland and beyond.

What role do African countries want to play in the globalised world of the future? There has been a growing realisation among African countries over the past twenty years that issues such as the clima

A new cross-institute initiative between MIT Governance Lab, MISTI, and the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center to support graduate student work in public sector innovation.

Sparking the imagination in First-Year Seminars Krieger School of Arts and Sciences writer Rachel Wallach offers a firsthand exploration of First-Year Seminar courses, which cover a range of topics t

Around 1800, political and social unrest swept through Europe. The Netherlands, or more correctly, the Dutch Republic, also was the scene of civil conflict and political coups.

A Ph.D. candidate in political science at UdeM has studied the influence of social pressure on whether people vote.

New research co-authored at UC Berkeley details the psychological processes that demagogues exploit to erode support for democracy - and shows a way to bridge the dangerous divide. The year was 2020, just a few weeks before the presidential election, when Republican gubernatorial candidate Spencer Cox and Democratic opponent Chris Peterson teamed up to make an unconventional campaign ad.

A group of students at the University of Toronto Mississauga are at the forefront of efforts to understand transitional justice across the globe - a scholarly field that confronts how to pursue accou

May's elections hold the key to Turkey's political future - domestically and internationally.

The GLOBE research project conducted a survey with more than 1000 staff members from 30 international organizations, revealing trends and challenges for global governance The Project Coordinator has been Jacint Jordana, professor of Political Science at UPF and Director of IBEI, an entity that has led a consortium made up of eleven institutions from all over the world.