AMHERST — Should voting be a voluntary right or a required civic duty? That question will anchor the 2026 College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Freedman Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the ...

The University of Notre Dame will host a public lecture on politics and democracy featuring George F. Will on Nov. 6. The event, hosted by the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, ...

Political philosopher Philip Pettit will speak at Youngstown State University on Oct. 2 as the Dr. Thomas and Albert J. Shipka Speaker for fall 2025. His lecture, “Democracy: The What, the Why and the ...

Last year’s edition of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, which gauges countries’ perceived ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - As political tensions continue to rise across the country, a former North Dakota governor is doing what he can to bring back civility and neighborliness. On Thursday afternoon, ...

MANKATO — Ahead of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, political science professors gathered at MSU to give their own address: a state of democracy. “The relationship between citizens and the ...

The Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will welcome Illinois Senate Minority Leader John Curran as the next guest of the “Rebuilding Democracy” lecture series at 2 p.m.

On Monday, the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia hosted Niraja Gopal Jayal, a political scientist at King’s College London. In her talk at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs ...

The Goodluck Jonathan Foundation 2025 Democracy Dialogue is currently underway in Ghana. The dialogue with the theme, 'Why Democracies Die', is being hosted in collaboration with the Government of ...

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