Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Support for Australia’s leading opposition force, the Labor Party, among voters with Indian origins may be a sign of a coming change in power, but neither major party can take their support for granted.
This is because many of the assaults on democracy are happening in such a stealthy way that they are practically invisible. And of course, a problem that is never detected will never be solved. The world’s democracies are facing a dangerous problem, but a problem we’ve not fully awakened to. We need to acknowledge it, publicize it and confront it.
The most likely outcome is that Lebanon will remain at a standstill in the coming months, and perhaps even beyond that, as the two broad alignments neutralize each other in Parliament. Neither side will be able to overcome the other, and both sides will want to avoid a civil war.
As corruption has grown, it undermines people’s faith in their own systems, and they actually vote away their own democracies, because they feel like what they’re getting in terms of freedom, isn’t worth what they’re losing in terms of trust, and so on.
David Axelrod joins Aaron David Miller to talk about how foreign policy shapes American voter preferences.
Here are two big facts about the polls in the last few weeks. The first is that Boris Johnson is one of the most unpopular prime ministers of all time. His current ratings are ones that no past prime minister have recovered from and gone on to win the following election. The second big fact is that Labour's lead is in single figures.
Age and education have largely determined British votes in the recent local elections. Looking at the big parties’ race, the main question is whether past trends will hold in the run-up to the general election.
Evan Feigenbaum and Darshana Baruah sit down with Douglas Farrar to talk about the U.S.-ASEAN special summit
The Conference on the Future of Europe represented a positive first step in the innovation of European democracy. Policymakers will need to use the experience as a catalyst for broader change, well beyond the kind of citizen engagement pioneered during the conference.
The landslide victory of Hungary’s Fidesz party under Prime Minister Viktor Orban on April 3rd raises new questions on how to stop democratic backsliding.