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SPOTLIGHT: The Year of the Ballot
Isabel Aninat offers her reflections on the implications of what happened on her country’s search for a more perfect democracy.
During 2024 more than 50 countries, including seven of the world’s most populous nations, will vote in national elections. While many thousands of names will appear on ballots, what’s really at stake is the future of democracy itself.
Can democracy cope with the centrifugal forces of the radical right and radical left? Will “strong man” leaders continue to triumph with their often simplistic, sometimes hateful policy ideas? Will extreme partisanship continue to…
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