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democracy
Books & Arts
Dictating democratisation
Liam Gammon
17 March 2023
Democracy has spread in a distinctive way among Asia’s success stories
International
Making sense of Meloni
James Panichi
2 November 2022
Labelling Italy’s new prime minister a fascist misses the longer-term significance of her rise to power — and some shrewd decisions since she got the job
National Affairs
The above-the-liners
Paul Rodan
30 September 2022
Short-sighted political calculus has preserved a seriously undemocratic upper house in Victoria
Books & Arts
Flame wars
Ryan Cropp
12 September 2022
Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause?
Books & Arts
Can-do communalism
Hamish McDonald
3 December 2021
As Australia “rediscovers” India yet again, are its secular forces starting to push back?
Books & Arts
Democracy is for losers
Ryan Cropp
29 October 2021
How does a system that tolerates its enemies defend itself?
International
Navalny’s long game
Graeme Gill
2 February 2021
January’s protests might be less damaging to Putin than a slow leaching away of legitimacy
International
Small force, great weight
Benjamin Reilly
27 November 2020
Could preferential voting be an “Archimedean lever of change” for American politics?
Books & Arts
Is illiberalism the force of the future?
Klaus Neumann
20 April 2020
Four recent books provide partial answers. But are they asking the right question?
International
What’s in a name?
Antonia Finnane
17 February 2020
There are other things we should know about the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak
National Affairs
Which crisis of trust?
James Frost
18 July 2019
Are concerns about Australians’ faith in politics and democracy being exaggerated by poorly presented research?
Books & Arts
The return of the -isms
Paul ’t Hart
3 April 2019
How resilient are Western democracies? Two new books have different answers
Books & Arts
Towards a second democratic revolution
Paul ’t Hart
11 February 2019
Books
| What France’s yellow jacket protestors may be trying to tell us
National Affairs
The ACCC’s plan to reshape the media landscape
Margaret Simons
11 December 2018
Can government rise to the challenge thrown down by the regulator?
From the archive
What’s love got to do with it?
Stephen Mills
12 October 2018
Like Martin Luther King, philosopher Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of democracy
Books & Arts
Can democracy survive?
Shaun Crowe
9 October 2018
Review essay
| Democracies might be threatened, but authoritarian regimes have their own problems
National Affairs
Australia’s growing democracy gap
Joo-Cheong Tham
2 October 2018
A little-remarked feature of New Zealand’s political system would help make Australia more democratic
Essays & Reportage
Like Uber, but for politics
Dominic Kelly
9 August 2018
The false promise of digital democracy
International
Worrying about Xi Jinping
Kerry Brown
7 August 2018
Xu Zhangrun’s bold critique of contemporary China points to potential flashpoints ahead
International
Westward, look, the land is bright
John Quiggin
29 June 2018
Amid more bad news from Washington come signs that attitudes are hardening against much of what the Trump presidency stands for
Books & Arts
What are we talking about when we talk about China?
John Fitzgerald
15 March 2018
Books
| Is China a different kind of democracy, or simply a self-preserving one-party state?
Correspondents
Duterte opens up a new front
Norman Abjorensen
10 November 2017
Letter from Manila
| Even the highest reaches of the law might not be immune to Rodrigo Duterte’s assault on accountability
Correspondents
“We made it impossible for them to steal our votes again”
R. Tousi
7 July 2017
Despite the tough Middle Eastern neighborhood and internal resistance, Iranians continue to seek greater freedom and equality
National Affairs
Anarcho-Marxist claptrap and the rule of law
Peter Mares
17 March 2017
Injustices sometimes need to be resisted unlawfully, as critics of Sally McManus should know
International
Does history end with Canada?
Grant Wyeth
15 March 2017
One country shows how liberal democracies can avoid backsliding
Correspondents
Healing Hong Kong’s political divisions – not as easy as ABC?
Duncan Hewitt
21 February 2017
Updated 28 February
| Candidates for next month’s election of a new chief executive are coming up against a more radical generation
National Affairs
Politicians behaving badly
Norman Abjorensen
28 November 2016
Australia isn’t entirely immune to the forces unleashed in Europe and the United States
Books & Arts
The fossil fuel of politics
Klaus Neumann
23 November 2016
Books
| How should we respond to the growing crisis in electoral democracy?
International
Down-ballot democracy
Tom Greenwell
28 October 2016
Behind the high-profile presidential race, Americans will be voting on hundreds of proposals to change the law on 8 November
Correspondents
Palmer’s folly and the road to New Caledonian independence
Nic Maclellan
26 May 2016
The closure of Clive Palmer’s Yabulu nickel smelter affects workers – and the political system – in New Caledonia as well as Townsville, writes
Nic Maclellan
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