politics

“Geography of disillusion” poses a major challenge for democratic countries across the continent, according to researchers.

Study of almost 3 million Facebook and Twitter posts from US media and politicians shows divisive posts dunking on opponents drive engagement on...

A study by Cambridge political scientists, including a former Permanent Secretary, charts two decades of central government’s inability to get to...

A short online game in which players are recruited as a 'Chief Disinformation Officer' and use tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a...

Study suggests that TV appearances by Bolsonaro led to millions more Brazilians ignoring social distancing in the days following broadcast.

A new report, the first from the University's new Centre for the Future of Democracy, finds that 2019 had the "the highest level of democratic...

Towards the end of the 1960s, rumours began to spread that nonconformist citizens of the USSR were being diagnosed with mental illnesses and confined...

Forty thousand pages of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s personal and political papers from 1989 are being opened to the public at the...