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The next General Election will see 16-year-olds able to vote for the first time, ministers have confirmed in wide-ranging plans to “modernise our…

Labour’s manifesto committed the party to lowering the voting age for parliamentary elections.

Controversial voter ID requirements will also be radically watered down so people only need to have their bank card to be able to take part in elections

In this post I look at my book's key findings on the effects of hate speech and the controversies surrounding… The post Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Hate Speech, Its Effects and the Question of Regulation appeared first on Reason.com.

Pat McFadden reacts over concerns foreign powers could use untraceable money to affect British democracy

What a sight to behold

We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny.

Artificial intelligence is transforming “the way we think about the world, the way that we communicate [and] our political culture in a democracy,” Greece’s former prime minister George Papandreou tells Euronews Next.

Sajid Javid says the ‘very basis of our democracy is at risk’ without action to bring communities together

The election of Zambia’s president, Hakainde Hichilema, in 2021 was widely interpreted as a victory for democracy. Zambia had suffered rising repression under former leader Edgar Lungu, but Hichilema promised democratic accountability. However, there are now concerns that his government is promoting constitutional changes that would entrench ruling-party dominance.

A Hong Kong court began hearing appeals on Monday from 12 democracy campaigners who were jailed for subversion last year during the city's largest national security trial.