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Chad’s election outcome already seems set: 4 things Mahamat Déby has done to stay in power

Helga Dickow - Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI)

La democracia como agravio

A. García Linera - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO

Ecuador holds the line on ISDS No to Corporate Colonialism!

Luciana Ghiotto - Transnational Institute TNI

Challenges to Danish development engagements in a time of increasing autocratisation

Adam Moe Fejerskov - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Democracy and Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) - The example of mutual health insurance in France

CIRIEC Working Papers
Yannick Lucas - Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique pour l'Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV)

Repression by Legal Means: Governments’ Anti-Fake News Lawfare

GIGA Focus Global
Sangeeta Mahapatra, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Andreas Ufen - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

The empowerment effect of visible political representation: Examining the impact of Muslim representation on political outcomes

Electoral Studies
Nazita Lajevardi, Moa Mårtensson, Kåre Vernby - Department of Government Uppsala University

The End of an Exception? The Rise of Far-Right Populism in Portugal

Filipe Calvão - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Why it matters how we talk about the 'global' autocratisation trend

Licia Cianetti,Petra Alderman - International Development Department, University of Birmingham (IDD)

The Global Gateway in the Southern Neighbourhood: the Dilemma of Investing in Authoritarian MENA Countries

Mark Furness - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

How the Sahel's democracy dream has turned into disillusionment

Hilda Milka Koyier - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

La crisis de la democracia en América Latina

A. Tzeiman, D.E. Martuscelli - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO

Between democracy and autocracy 2024 – Asia’s bumper election year

Jasmin Lorch - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Jobs and Political Participation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

The Journal of Politics
Lovise Aalen, Andreas Kotsadam, Janneke Pieters, Espen Villanger - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)

Guatemala: A Vote for Turning the Tide

GIGA Focus Latin America
Sabine Kurtenbach, Désirée Reder, Alina Ripplinger - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Misinformation technology: Internet use and political misperceptions in Africa

Journal of Comparative Economics
Joël Cariolle, Yasmine Elkhateeb, Mathilde Maurel - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI)

Information integrity and information pollution: vulnerabilities and impact on social cohesion and democracy in Mexico

Anita Breuer - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Ten Things to Watch in Africa in 2024

Martin Acheampong, Matthias Basedau, Julia Grauvogel - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

The effects of resource rents and elections on human capital investment in Colombia

Resources Policy
María Antonieta Collazos-Ortiz a, Pui-Hang Wong - UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT

Autocratization by elections

Sjögren, Anders - Department of Government Uppsala University

Mali: desk study on aid and democracy

Melissa Samarin - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Malawi: desk study on aid and democracy

Melissa Samarin - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Links Between the Balkan Far-Right and the War in Ukraine

Asya Metodieva, Michael Colborne - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

On the edge: delays in election results and electoral violence in Sub-Sahara Africa

Ghadafi Saibu - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Bangladesh’s Upcoming Election: A Litmus Test for Democracy

GIGA Focus Asia
Ishrat Hossain - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Can Public Participation Deepen Democracy? Insights from Nakuru City in Kenya

Lena Gutheil - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Still proud at the polls? LGBT+ rights don't dilute the sexuality turnout gap

European Journal of Political Research
Michal Grahn - Department of Government Uppsala University

No Sellout of Democracy

Julia Leininger - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

The SADC democracy agenda: Channels, lessons and digital technologies for civil society engagement

Enea Katundu, Martin Ronceray, Nompumelelo Runji - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

The EAC democracy agenda: Channels, lessons and digital technologies for civil society engagement

Andrew Songa, Martin Ronceray - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news

International Political Science Review
Pauline Lemaire - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)

Beyond the Soft–Hard Power Binary: Resource Control in Turkey’s Foreign Policy Towards Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
Jens Heibach, Hakkı Taş - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Discipline, Development, and Duress: The Art of Winning an Election in Bangladesh

Critical Asian Studies
Mathilde Maîtrot, David Jackman - Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)

Digging deeper into the state–democracy nexus. The role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy

Andrea Vaccaro - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

The Authoritarian Roots of India's Democracy

Journal of Democracy
Tripurdaman Singh - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

L’agenda démocratique de la CEDEAO : Canaux, leçons et technologies numériques pour l’engagement de la société civile

Martin Ronceray, Latyr Tine, Maëlle Salzinger, Rukia Mohamed Bakari - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

The ECOWAS democracy agenda: Channels, lessons and digital technologies for civil society engagement

Martin Ronceray, Latyr Tine, Maëlle Salzinger, Rukia Mohamed Bakari - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

Strengthening Urban Labs’ Democratic Aspirations: Nurturing a Listening Capacity to Engage With the Politics of Social Learning

Urban Planning
Anna Seravalli - School of Arts and Communication, University Malmö (K3)

Digging deeper into the state–democracy nexus. The role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy

Andrea Vaccaro - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Setting up institutions in multilevel states: Assemblies, parties, and the selection of candidates

Party Politics
Patrícia Calca, Teresa Ruel - Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas (CAPP)

Strengthening Urban Labs’ Democratic Aspirations: Nurturing a Listening Capacity to Engage With the Politics of Social Learning

Urban Planning
Anna Seravalli - School of Arts and Communication, University Malmö (K3)

Political participation patterns of the emerging middle classes in Peru and the Philippines

Babette Never, Chiara Anselmetti - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

This Is Not Real News: Discursive Struggles over Fake News, Journalism, and Democracy

Johan Farkas - School of Arts and Communication, University Malmö (K3)

People’s Agenda for Pandemic Preparedness

Grant, Catherine; Achyut, Pranita; Akello, Grace et al. - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Tech for Democracy: Learnings from the Year of Action

Adam Moe Fejerskov, Trine Rosengren Pejstrup, Alma Tjalve - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh

Contemporary South Asia
Mohammad Mozahidul Islam et al. - Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)

Myanmar's resilient revolution: How non-state welfare is sustaining democratic struggle

Dr Gerard McCarthy - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Cultural liberalism in Eastern and Western Europe: a societal antidote to democratic backsliding?

Aurelia Ananda & James Dawson - Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR)

Election type and the logic of pre-election violence: Evidence from Zimbabwe

Electoral Studies
Ursula Daxecker, Mascha Rauschenbach - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

More than targets: How the EU promotes democracy, human rights and gender equality through Global Europe and beyond

Amandine Sabourin, Alexei Jones - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

Avenues for Youth Representation in Uganda

Gerald Kagambirwe Karyeija, Ragnhild L. Muriaas - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)

Contagious politics and COVID-19: does the infectious disease hit populist supporters harder?

Contemporary Politics
Aline Burni, Daniel Stockemer, Christine Hackenesch - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

The (un)intended effects of EU development cooperation on democracy

Niels Keijzer - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India

Journal of Peace Research
H Zeynep Bulutgil, Neeraj Prasad - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

The loser’s long curse: electoral consequences of a class conflict

Jaakko Meriläinen, Matti Mitrunen - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Brazilian democracy – an aberration or a challenge?

Lee Pegler - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

The European radical-Right and the Energy Crisis: a Window of Opportunity

Jasper Praet - Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS - UGent)

International democracy promotion in times of autocratization: from supporting to protecting democracy

Julia Leininger - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture

European Journal of Criminology
Laura D. Keesman - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

Transforming community services through mutualism, social enterprise and democracy

Ian Vickers - Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Dying Dreams in Tajikistan’s Global Borderland

Current History
Till Mostowlansky - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Mapping Best Practice Guidelines in working with Civil Society Organisations

Juliet Milican - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Attacks on scholars a threat to democracy in Africa: the link between decreased academic freedom and the stagnation of democracy

Esther Kariuki, Hajer Kratou and Liisa Laakso - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Kenya: Behind disputed election, signs of growing democratic resilience

Jan Bachmann & Benard Musembi Kilaka - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Divine Democracy: Three Questions

Political Theology
Sofia Näsström - Department of Government Uppsala University

The Demand and Supply of Political Campaign Financing in Tanzania and Uganda during the 2010S

Moses Khisa, Jamal Msami, Ole Therkildsen - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Space invaders and norm-politicians: how the media represent the intersectional identities of Members of Parliament

European Political Science Review
Zahra Runderkamp, Daphne van der Pas, Anne Louise Schotel, Liza Mügge - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

India’s democracy in crisis: Towards an electoral ethnocracy

Indrajit Roy - Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York (IGDC)

Artificial intelligence and democratic legitimacy. The problem of publicity in public authority

AI & Society
Ludvig Beckman, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg & Karim Jebari - Department of Government Uppsala University

A Radical Democratic Lens to Rejuvenating European Union Democracy Support

Democratic Theory
Nathan Vandeputte - Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS - UGent)

Energy sanctions and Russia’s democracy – autocracy: a dynamic VAR analysis

Peter van Bergeijk, Sajjad Faraji Dizaji - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Attacks on scholars a threat to democracy in Africa

Esther Kariuki, Hajer Kratou & Liisa Laakso - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Democratizing EU democracy support in Uganda: embedding democracy aid within local negotiations of justice in Acholiland

Democratization
Nathan Vandeputte - Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS - UGent)

The Political Power of Economic Elites in Contemporary Western Democracies

Alberto Parmigiani - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

A guide to the African Charter of Democracy, Elections and Governance

Martin Ronceray & Lidet Tadesse Shiferaw - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)