Electoral Law
What happens when the institutions designed to oversee elections are themselves captured by incumbent power? The Hungarian case offers a cautionary study in the collapse of electoral checks.
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Voter Trust
Distrust as Data: What Survey Evidence Tells Us About Democratic Legitimacy
New cross-national data reveal a deepening scepticism about electoral institutions. But is distrust a symptom of democratic dysfunction — or a rational response to real failures?
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Technology
AI-Generated Disinformation and the 2024 Election Cycle: A Preliminary Assessment
The proliferation of synthetic media in recent election campaigns raises urgent questions about the capacity of existing legal frameworks to protect electoral integrity.
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Comparative Politics
Compulsory Voting Revisited: Evidence from Australia and Belgium
Does compulsory voting enhance democratic equality, or does it merely manufacture turnout statistics? New evidence from two long-standing mandatory voting systems.
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Electoral Reform
Proportional Representation and Coalition Government: Is There a Stability Trade-Off?
Critics of PR systems argue they produce unstable coalition governments. The empirical record, however, is considerably more nuanced than this conventional wisdom suggests.
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