While these cultural representation gaps have existed for a long time, it is the increase in their salience and perceived ...

State rankings provide some initial insights into the prevalence of hurdles to and supports for women in each state’s politics, but they tell no single story for women’s political progress.

A first-past-the-post voting system, in which a party can win a seat even if most voters disapprove of it, creates conditions ...

Joelle Emerson, chief executive of Paradigm, a US diversity consultancy, identifies a mismatch between rhetoric and reality. “It looks like most companies are standing by their goals of creating fair, ...

The number of companies ending their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs continues to grow, with Google becoming one of ...

On September 25, the mayor of New York was indicted on criminal charges for the first time in the modern era. The charges ...

Unable to address public concerns about the LDP faction bosses’ misuse of political funds and the ... winning less than half of the proportional representation (PR) vote every time.

To escape our two-party trap, we need a better system of electing people to Congress: proportional representation ... It is why more than 200 leading political scientists and historians (including ...

The SAD was barred from contesting the polls as per provisions of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara (Management) Act, 2014 due to its status as a registered political party under the Representation of the ...

Despite all the political ... in the election. For example, if Party X received 50 per cent of the popular vote in a region, they should be allotted half of the representation in that region.

In the years following the brutal suppression of pro-democracy protests in Belarus in 2020 and 2021, a wave of politically ...