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Record number of countries will go to elections at a time when young populations’ trust on democracy is waning  

Kenya’s election: Institutional safeguards are still a work in progress

Lessons from 2013 & 2017 indicate media, parties, civil society, citizens should be as vigilant as ever

Book Digest: History of US presidential elections, India’s fight against COVID-19 and more

Internal disaplacements fuelled by climate change to economic analysis of rural middle class, DTE tracks new books on environment and development …

Excluded at the ballot box: What stops people voting around the world and how to fix it

While there is clear evidence that some voters are being systemically excluded, there are also remedies available that could act as proactive …

Voting without voters: Uttar Pradesh migrant workers to be home for paddy transplantation next, may skip Lok Sabha polls

Migrant workers came back home for Holi, won't be able to come back for the  crucial electoral process

Simply put: American Democracy

Lok Sabha 2024: Too hot to vote during Phase 2?

DTE looks at if heat is playing any role in voter turnout this election or ECI’s heat-related concerns are unfounded

Voting without voters: Bihar migrant workers forced to sacrifice ballot rights due to financial strain

Require special provisions, free trips home to participate in democratic process

Voting without voters: West Bengal may see migrants flocking home to vote & document citizenship status amid CAA worries

Migrants likely to influence fate of elections in state; CAA cloud advantage to Trinamool but BJP to leverage governance failure that led to …

Voting without voters: In Uttar Pradesh, areas with low turnout are hubs of migrant workers

EC plans to reach out to migrant workers via postcards to encourage them to vote, but it may be too little, too late

Politics is a party

Voting without voters: Migrant workers in Odisha’s Nuapada unable to afford trip home to cast ballot

About 75,000 workers in district are migrant labourers and 63,000 of them eligible voters

If Trump refuses to accept defeat in November, the US will survive intact, as it has 5 out of 6 times in the past

 Also, the powerful historical, social and geographic forces that produced the total failure of 1860, leading to the Civil War, are simply …

Decision 2022: Goa’s BJP faces a challenge to solve decade-old mining imbroglio 

Opening up mining in Goa is not going to be easy; there are wheels within wheels, in an issue that is mostly misunderstood

Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis: What lies ahead can include a constitutional crisis over succession

Neither the Succession Act nor the 25th Amendment have ever been invoked for longer than a few hours  

Simply Put: Karnataka Polls 2023

Madagascar’s 2023 presidential election is crucial for the island’s future, but it’s off to a rocky start

A critical question is whether this election will be considered “free and fair” and the results accepted by all

Latest parliamentary win by Putin’s United Russia has been years in the manufacturing

The election coincides with a period of economic stagnation, high household inflation, the ongoing coronavirus crisis and environmental disasters

COVID-19 Update: Bihar elections to be the first in pandemic

Nearly 70 million tests have been conducted for COVID-19 so far in India, the MoHFW said September 25

2020 US elections: No Democrat candidate offers bold plan for climate action

A number of polls suggest that Democrat voters also consider climate change to be a top-tier issue, as important as healthcare

Simply put: Safety and unemployment

Abiy put Ethiopia on road to democracy, but major obstacles still stand in the way

Abiy’s major achievement was dismantling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front. But this was not without its challenges 

Karnataka Polls 2023: No mention of ‘climate change’ in any party’s manifesto as state votes today

Political leadership offers no vision or clarity on matters related to environment, according to activists  

US Elections 2020: A history of Trump’s climate change denial

The US is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, but the president has repeatedly undermined sustained efforts by climate change researchers 

Climate change matters to more and more people — and could be a deciding factor in the 2024 election

Between the 2016 and the 2020 presidential elections, climate change became increasingly important to voters