Recent raids on LGBTQ+ associations and private homes of LGBTQ+ activists in Türkiye are more than an attack on a ...

Poland’s democratic backsliding was not preceded by voters becoming more extreme, argue Marta Kołczyńska, Maciej Sychowiec ...

When authoritarian rulers fall, their relatives often become targets for prosecution. Drawing on six African transitions, ...

Serbia's student movement is on the ballot on 25 October, but no student is a candidate. Drawing on internal documents, Sadie Zarris shows how a movement without leaders wrote itself an exacting ...

Laura Southgate finds that democracy alone does not consistently reduce disaster impacts across Southeast Asia. A clearer ...

Vladyslav Butenko argues that Brazil’s presidential race is not a contest over the size of the welfare state. Lula offers ...

The radical-right Chega party enjoyed a sharp rise in support during Portugal's recent parliamentary elections. With European elections coming up in June, Diogo Vieira Ferreira warns that support for ...

Much work on populism reveals how populists mean different things when they claim to represent the real ‘people’ in the fight against the ‘elite’. A recent blog piece for this series makes precisely ...

Political statements hinder the difficult conversations central to the mission of institutions of higher learning and scholarly associations. When institutions like ECPR speak collectively on ...

Voters say they value democracy, yet governments that weaken courts and watchdogs rarely pay a price. Filippo Palmieri argues that the reason is not indifference but a majoritarian idea of democracy, ...

A fascist zeitgeist has replaced the populist one. Luca Manucci explains how, to attract voters, the contemporary far right exploits a widespread saudade for the authoritarian past. The firewall has ...

On 6 December 2024, Romania’s Constitutional Court, citing newly declassified disclosures of ongoing Russian electoral meddling, annulled the presidential election just two days before second-round ...