, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections by the methods of the mathematical theory of democracy. This one estimates the policy …, the election winner, the SPD, is now ranked 4 instead of 22 in 2017, having the mean index (popularity + universality) / 2 …

Assessing how great a threat President Trump poses to American democracy is a thorny task. Here my analysis on this … question will be through a comparative-historical lens: namely, by comparing the election of 2016 to the election of Lincoln in … 1860. The reference to the 1860 election for this inquiry is obvious enough: the victory by Lincoln did ultimately spark a …

state legislation (whether Republican-sponsored or Democratic-sponsored) attacking voting rights or threatening election …

of democracy that centers the lived experiences of people, particularly marginalized communities. Requiring more than … legal standing and a secure right to vote, the abolitionist view of democracy calls for economic and civic standing …, community self-determination, and equality. This view starkly contrasts with dominant concept of democracy in the legal field …

citizens. We find that, overall, the municipal election candidates’ local priorities for governance do broadly correspond to …