On Wednesday, the mood at the Pune NCP (Sharad Pawar) office was unlike that of the earlier elections. The air of excitement was replaced by uncertainty.

Yes, it’s election season. I’m sure you are as tired of all the political advertisements, polls, and unsolicited text messages as I am. Yet despite the acrimony, I continue to be fascinated by what ...

A recent political rally has triggered a war of words between rival parties. A spokesperson for an opposition party ...

Recent fatal shootings of political figures have highlighted a rise in political violence in the U.S. Experts suggest that most political violence comes from lone extremists rather than organized ...

Formulae like these are being worked out across Maharashtra, as political parties trade ideology for votes in one of the most ...

For a long time, the claim has been made that the brains of conservative people are different than those of progressives. Using MRI scans of almost 1,000 Dutch people, researchers from the University ...

The collapse of traditional party systems is a familiar crisis across many contemporary democracies. Italian political scientist Piero Ignazi, writing in “The Crisis of Parties and the Rise of New ...

Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: ...

Two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump, the murder of a health insurance executive in New York City, the burning of Tesla dealerships and vehicles nationwide, and the assassination ...

The burst of new parties signals yearning for change. Yet, history teaches us that enthusiasm alone cannot dismantle entrenched systems. Leaders of the student-led National Citizens Party at the party ...

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal unanimously ruled Dec. 3 that the Communist Party of Poland (KPP), founded in 2002, is incompatible with the nation's 1997 constitution, citing papal encyclicals ...