The article discusses the role of the Commonwealth in promoting genuine local democracy, free and fair elections and good governance, based on the principles agreed in 2009 and contained in the Commonwealth Cha
The employer’s role in democracy Ballou-Aares says business leaders can promote the legitimacy of elections by offering employees paid time off to vote and work the polls. They can also provide colleagues with unbiased, factual materials about voting to counteract misinformation and mistrust i...
“hard” cases. However, overall, partisans are more likely to identify attempts to steal elections than Independents are because partisans get it right about 80% of the time when they have “easy” calls to make. The pattern is similar in Fig.6B with the analogous comparisons from Study 2...
Social media doesn’t work the way we think it should. That’s the conclusion many people have come to in the wake of revelations aboutCambridge Analytica’s mining of Facebook data to build political profiles and sway elections. Perhaps the concerns go further back, to the election of a U...
These main findings provide good news for democracy, as hesitation to restrict and punish politicians who make antidemocratic statements, and thus threaten the integrity of elections, could potentially be a precursor for more active support for antidemocratic tendencies, such as voting for anti...
“If we don’t step up, things are going to get worse,” said Obama, coming to the frontlines of the Democratic battle to take back Congress in their final weeks, less than two months before the midterm elections. ...
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.Achen, Christopher H., and Larry M. Bartels. 2016. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press....
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younger than conservatives. The research team evaluated mortality across five presidential elections, from 2000 to 2019. Fortunately, they found that health outcomes have been improving across the board in Democratic counties and Republic counties (Go Science!). But their main findings compared Democrati...
Chuck Schumer is doubling down on his prediction that Democrats will retain the Senate majority in the 2024 elections, he said at the CNN-POLITICO Grill on Monday. Schumer said that while some are suggesting Senate Democrats could lose as many as three or four seats t...