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

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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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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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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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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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