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Brazilian Legislatures after Covid-19: structural change or just conjunctural adaptation?
Professor Cristiane Brum Bernardes reflects on the role that digital platforms and social media have played in mediating the work of the Brazilian legislature in the context of the ...
Ethnicity, religion, and Diwali in Fiji
Dr Jastinder Kaur reflects on the politics of, and communication around, ethnicity and religion during Diwali in Fiji. Fiji is post-colonial archipelago in the South Pacific comprising indigenous Fijians ...
Rethinking Representative Democracy in the 21st Century
Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal reflect on how a series of events have turned the world upside down, and brought into question many of our settled, even complacent, assumptions about ...
Reflecting on leadership and Dagu in Ethiopia
Emma Crewe writes about how the new PM Dr Abiy Ahmed, the first Oromo to lead Ethiopia, talked about leadership early in his tenure. His Chief of Staff reported ...
Kirk Humphrey and ‘People over Politics’: Winds of Change in Barbadian Politics
Shalinder Carter reflects on a pivotal moment in Barbadian political history – the May 2018 general election. Granted unrivalled access to the campaign of political newcomer Kirk Humphrey, Carter ...
The pretend guns of realism and the reality of resistance
Dr Zoë Marriage argues that Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil’s recent elections hinges on a political rhetoric that legitimises anger and violence. This is symbolised in the fatal stabbing ...