In recent years, scholars of authoritarianism have noted a trend in which institutions
designed to check arbitrary power have been hollowed out to facilitate its exercise. As they …

Scientific, political and bureaucratic elites use epistemic practices like “big data analysis”
and “web scraping” to create representations of the citizenry and to legitimize policymaking. I …

Con la revolución televisiva y la llegada de las redes sociales, la comunicación política ha
experimentado una gran transformación, tanto en España como en el resto del mundo. El …

The right to legal identity, previously neglected by the development community, has gained
recognition by the adoption of a target in the SDGs to 'provide legal identity for all, including …

Applications of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-driven innovations are
profound in the electoral cycle. Among them, biometric technology is currently sweeping …

In a large number of countries in Africa, biometric identification technologies have become a
key element of voter registration procedures. Based on an in-depth study of biometric voter …

Election interference is a problem in digitized elections around the world. Given East and
Southeast Asia's dense social network, electoral integrity is a growing concern. Yet, few …

The democratisation of politics in most post-colonial formations like Nigeria has not been
successful in terms of reducing the incidence of voter intimidation, ballot box …

This article explores the recent failure of an elaborate biometric registration scheme, the
National Digital Registry System (NDRS), in Kenya. The article shows that the Kenyan and …

How is social media used in African elections and what is its impact? This article builds on
existing research on the role of social media in African elections to argue that its impact is …