Democracy in Crisis: Do Americans Support Deploying Election Monitors?
Guest post by Travis Curtice and Charles Crabtree Today is election day in the United States. As polls…
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Will the US Experience Election Violence? Lessons from Kenya
Guest post by Kathleen Klaus Kenya experienced one of the worst episodes of election violence in 2007 when…
How Can We Know When Popular Movements Are Winning?
In 2016, Erica Chenoweth wrote this piece on the four trends that predict the eventual success of popular…
African Mediators Outperform Their Non-African Counterparts—Here’s Why
By Allard Duursma In 2013, during the 50th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (now known as…
5 Questions on Development and Conflict
By guest contributors Eli Berman and David Lake Violence is a feature of life in many developing countries.…
Diversions: Fraudulent Elections
On more than one occasion, the Trump administration has made the unsubstantiated claim that illegal ballots, including those…
Diversions: The Decline of Freedom (2013)
A new weekly PV@G series features one piece from our archive every Friday, chosen for its continued relevance,…
Why Have the Hong Kong Protests Lasted So Long?
By Dawn Brancati and Nathan Law Twenty-one weeks. That is how long the current protests against Chinese rule in Hong…
Identity, Law, and How Political Elites Define Terrorism
Guest post by Anna Meier In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 9 attack on a synagogue in…
The Larger Implications of the Oil Attacks in Saudi Arabia
By Navin Bapat. Drone attacks allegedly by Houthi rebels this past weekend on the Abqaiq facility and the…