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Democracy: two-party systems vs. direct democracy
Elections and Social Media
Elections and Facebook: Privacy, Security
Predicting, Forecasting Elections with Polls and Data Science
Democracy, Capitalism and free markets
A collection of articles and videos looking at Voting and Elections in the USA
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A collection of articles about India and elections

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Democracy in India. Festive but fraying - The Economist

It is not just sectarianism that is ailing the body politic | Leaders India’s democracy is not as healthy as this month’s elections make it seem... (2022)


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Karl Popper on democracy - From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited

In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)


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Why Americans are so enamored with election polls

Polling is an imperfect attempt at providing insight and explanation. But the public's desire for insight and explanation about elections never end... (2020)


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MIT: AOC’s Among Us livestream hints at Twitch’s political power

Democrats are tapping into the most popular game of the moment to reach young voters. ... potential of Twitch streams as a voter outreach tool. ... (2020)


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Is The Electoral Map Changing?

We looked at how 16 battleground states have voted in the last five presidential elections to see how they might go in 2020 From one presidentia... (2020)


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The Business Case for Saving Democracy

Why free markets need free politics D Democracy is in trouble. Recent survey data paints a sobering picture: Fifty-five percent of Americans say... (2020)


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Want to Fix Presidential Elections? Here’s the Quickest Way. - POLITICO Magazine

Abolishing the Electoral College and creating a national popular vote are far-fetched ideas for now. But there’s a more targeted way to reform Amer... (2019)


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What It Takes to Pull Off India’s Gargantuan Election - The New York Times

More than 900 million people — over 10 percent of the world’s population — could head to the polls over several weeks. The government is committed ... (2019)


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Why We Need Less Elite Philanthropy and More Democracy

Many people in Silicon Valley and San Francisco tech circles might not like Anand Giridharadas' vision for actually changing the world. (2018)


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The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws - MIT Technology Review

vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction. (2018)


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The “neuropolitics” consultants who hack voters’ brains - MIT Technology Review

These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing. (2018)


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Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult – | Aeon Essays

First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult - essay by C Thi Nguyen... (2018)


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Brazil's Lula must start prison term, Supreme Court rules - BBC News

The former president could be jailed within days after Supreme Court judges ruled against him. (2018)


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Another chapter on Facebook’s privacy woes is being written in Latin America – TechCrunch

Felicitas Carrique Contributor Share on Twitter Felicitas Carrique is an Argentinian reporter focused on media, technology, and innovation. The abu... (2018)


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‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate (2018)


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How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions - The New York Times

Cambridge Analytica harvested personal information from a huge swath of the electorate to develop techniques that were later used in the Trump camp... (2018)


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The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine - The New York Times

Election officials have insisted that machines can’t be remotely compromised because they’re not “connected to the internet.” But security experts ... (2018)


Article

What is populism? - The Economist explains

DONALD TRUMP, the populist American president-elect, wants to deport undocumented immigrants. Podemos, the populist Spanish party, wants to give im... (2018)


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What do election observers do? - The Economist explains

EVER since the late 1990s, international observation of elections has become so widespread that refusing to admit monitors is almost an outright ad... (2018)


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Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

Democracy might be mathematically impossible – here’s why. ▀▀▀ Massive thanks to Prof. Eric Maskin for helping with the script. Thanks to Chr... (2024)


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Brazil's Evangelical Far Right Could Elect The Country's Next President (HBO) - Vice News

Brazil’s supreme court ruled Wednesday that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has to start serving a 12-year prison sentence immediately, ... (2018)


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Statehood: It's Complicated | The Great American* Puerto Rico Part 8

Puerto Rico's current relationship to the United States is as complicated as its past relationship with the United States. Produced by Paul Myers w... (2018)


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The Supreme Court may disenfranchise you now - Vox | Today Explained Podcast

Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Pandemic or not, the highest court in the land won’t extend Wisconsin’s deadline for m... (2020)


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Exploring Why So Many Americans Don't Vote || NPR

On The Sidelines Of Democracy: In recent midterms, 4 in 10 eligible voters cast ballots. Nonvoters talk of apathy, disgust, barriers and other ... (2018)


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PredictIt

PredictIt is a New Zealand-based prediction market that offers prediction exchanges on political and financial events. PredictIt is owned and opera... (2020)


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Forecasting the US 2020 elections

Right now, our model thinks Joe Biden is likely to beat Donald Trump in the electoral college (2020)


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