Pourquoi les projets de développement, les interventions des ONG ou les politiques
publiques nationales sont-ils tous soumis à d'importants écarts entre ce qui était prévu et ce …

Has Zimbabwe entered a new political era? This provocation gets at some of the
fundamentals of politics: what are the constraints and possibilities in governing a country …

The economic and financial crimes of embezzlement and theft, bribes and kickbacks, money
laundering and illicit financial flows, and through state capture, are all channels of corruption …

Debates about democratic decline are now dominated by the notion that many democracies
might be undergoing a process described as democratic backsliding. While the concept can …

Incumbents in electoral regimes often retain power despite having to regularly compete in
multiparty elections. We examine a specific channel through which incumbents can seek to …

Digital technologies are increasingly used in elections around the world. Where the
resources and capacity of the state are limited, some have argued that such technologies …

This article tackles the puzzle of how Turkey's ruling Islamist populist Justice and
Development Party (AKP) was able to co-opt the secularist far-right Nationalist Action Party …

This article argues that the concept of state capture helps to structure our understanding of
patterns of grand corruption seen around the world in varied contexts, and increasingly even …

The relationship between populism and democracy is contested among scholars. While
some propose that populism is inherently harmful for democracy because it is anti-pluralist …

Contrary to our stereotypical views, dictators often introduce elections in which they refrain
from employing blatant electoral fraud. Why do electoral reforms happen in autocracies? Do …