New research from the University of Southampton has found that trust in representative institutions, such as parliaments, governments and political parties, has been declining in democratic countries ...

"The persecution of Christians around the world is one of the great untold scandals of the 21st Century," says Open Doors CEO.

Citizens’ trust in their political institutions has been falling around the world. This may not come as a shock to many.British politics has been in chaos since ...

The origin of Europe’s recent hard-right surge is difficult to pin down. Some theorise that, beginning with the financial ...

Located at 80 Washington Square East, a street-level, three-panel-long window gallery displays the face of Simone Weil, a ...

In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today, and the ones that fell by the wayside.

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

As NBC News reports: Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk has encouraged right-wing political movements ... Musk has been backing neo-Nazi parties around the world, interfering in elections ...

Germany's political newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), said on Monday it might legally challenge the results of ...

Source: AAP / Richard Wainwright / Darren England Tens of millions of dollars of "dark" donations — money given to political ... donated around $275,000 to various branches of the party.

Austria's three main centrist parties in parliament reached a deal to form a coalition government without the far-right ...