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 Holy See has no army, no intelligence service and no counterterrorism capability. Yet, Shreya Nautiyal argues, Pope Leo ...

A fascist zeitgeist has replaced the populist one. Luca Manucci explains how, to attract voters, the contemporary far right ...

Refugees are not born of persecution; they are made by states. People may flee war, violence or persecution, but they only ...

Co-creation has become a familiar response to Europe’s democratic malaise. Marjan Marjanović argues that inviting citizens ...

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 ...

Georgia has recently been rocked by ongoing anti-government protests, triggered by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s announcement on 28 November that his Georgian Dream (GD) government – already ...

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 ...

Anastasiia Kudlenko argues that a corruption scandal that toppled yet another Prosecutor General in Ukraine offers Ukrainian ...

Contributors to this Future of Populism blog series have written about the definition of populism, the emergence of authoritarian populism, the influence of the military in populist governments, and ...

Few regions in Africa have shifted away from democracy as dramatically as the Sahel. In the past few years, established but fragile democracies in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have all been toppled ...