The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson. Former Governor General of Canada delivers a speech on the refugee crisis, her history as a refugee, and the importance of democracy and democratic values in…
Islamist extremists have proclaimed Western democracies as their mortal enemy, and have devised new weapons to impose their ideology and to draw recruits. The beheadings of ISIS, the slaughter at…
His Highness the Aga Khan delivers a keynote address to the Athens Democracy Forum, where he says that improving the quality of human life is the most important component of a successful democracy.
It is a matter of gospel truth in Western democracies that our model of participatory democracy is universally applicable. But countries like China and Russia have formed functional societies in…
President Obama described the widening gap between the very rich and everyone else as "the defining challenge of our time." Is it? Why is it happening? Does it matter? How does it impact on how…
The authors find that “by factoring in the measurement of issue dimensions, economic issues have a stronger impact than recognized using previous methodologies, with more modest cultural influences…
This article examines the relationship between partisan dealignment and the “personalization of politics” and looks into the “claim that leader effects on voting behaviour are increasing across time”…
“This review aims to deepen understanding of both scholars and practitioners about how to reckon with racism in the midst of overlapping and intersecting crises. The works reviewed here extend calls…
“This article proposes a different function for deliberation, which is both more modest but nevertheless critical in public life: the legitimation not of decisions, but of fellow citizens. This…
