Elections
The Moral Challenge of the 2024 Election
As American politics approaches its quadrennial climax, presidential campaign claims and counterclaims multiply. In evaluating this cluttered stream of information, voters need to keep clear three distinctions between interests and...
Ireland’s Three-Way Race to the 2025 Elections
2024 has shaped up to be a wild and unpredictable time in Irish politics. The Taoiseach, the Republic of Ireland’s equivalent to a Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, stepped down from...
Zelenskyy’s Changing Leadership Style
In April 2019, the entrepreneur, actor, and showman Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected the sixth President of Ukraine with just under 75 percent of the vote. When he took office on...
Libya’s Unity Government is Living on Borrowed Time
Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah is the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU) based in Tripoli and the political face of one of the wealthiest business families to have survived...
What Iran’s New President Means for the Country and the Region
On June 28, Iranians went to the polls to vote in a snap election to determine who would succeed former President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on...
Iran’s New President is not a Reformist
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s two-part presidential elections on June 28 and July 5 resulted in the lowest turnout on record since the 1979 revolution, a testament to the tanking...
Venezuela’s Elections: Hope for a Democratic Transition?
Today, Venezuelans head to the polls for the country’s most consequential election of the last twenty-five years. But, while the focus will be on election day and the results, the...
Why Does Iran Hold So Many Elections?
On June 28, 2024, Iranians will again go to the polls, this time to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May 2024 helicopter crash. As with every previous election,...
South Africa’s New Government Needs Reliable Energy
What’s the biggest challenge for the African National Congress and its new coalition government now that the ANC has won less than 50 percent of the vote for the first...
The Demise of Indian Democracy Was Greatly Exaggerated
The greatest electoral show on earth—India’s elections—concluded not long ago, with over 640 million people casting votes over six weeks. More Indians voted than the combined total of eligible voters...
A Turning Point for Turkey?
After the local elections in Turkey in March, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, got one thing right in his balcony speech when he conceded his governing Justice and Development Party’s...
Narendra Modi’s Disappointing But Not Disastrous Election
Yesterday, India concluded its six-week, drawn-out parliamentary elections. As always, the country did not fail to surprise the global community. The conventional wisdom was that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would...