Topic description and stories

Support for populist politics 'collapsed' during the pandemic – global report

18 Jan 2022

Support for populist parties and leaders – and agreement with populist ideas – has fallen around the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a...

Read more
The back streets of Montpellier, France

Europe-wide political divide emerging between cities and countryside – study

17 Aug 2021

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

Read more

Faith in democracy: millennials are the most disillusioned generation ‘in living memory’

20 Oct 2020

Young people’s faith in democratic politics is lower than any other age group, and millennials across the world are more disillusioned with democracy...

Read more

Global dissatisfaction with democracy at a record high

29 Jan 2020

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...

Read more
Farewell picture

Opinion: Remainer or re-leaver? The philosophical conundrum posed by Brexit

07 Jun 2017

A recent YouGov survey suggests there is increasing agreement that 'Brexit means Brexit'. However, Alfred Moore from the Conspiracy and Democracy...

Read more

One Hundred Days of Trump

28 Apr 2017

Professor Andrew Preston examines the origins of the first hundred days as a measure of presidential success in American politics.

Read more

#ICYMI - Trump’s First Hundred Days

28 Apr 2017

Dr Emily Charnock, Lecturer in American History, delivers her verdict as the Trump presidency reaches its first major milestone.

Read more

First Brexit and now Trump: what is populism and how might we view it?

24 Jan 2017

In an article that draws on her research into populism in Western Europe, Léonie de Jonge (PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and...

Read more
Jasper Johns, "Flag", 1954-55, MoMA, New York

Opinion: Decision time in the US

05 Nov 2016

Seven Cambridge academics weigh in on the Trump vs Clinton showdown

Read more

Moon1

Elvis is alive and the Moon landings were faked: the (conspiracy) theory of everything

25 Oct 2016

As a global population we are awash with conspiracy theories. But what effect do these really have on the public as we go about our day-to-day lives...

Read more

“The best or worst thing to happen to humanity” - Stephen Hawking launches Centre for the Future of Intelligence

19 Oct 2016

Artificial intelligence has the power to eradicate poverty and disease or hasten the end of human civilisation as we know it – according to a speech...

Read more
Pericles

Opinion: Ancient Greeks would not recognise our ‘democracy’ – they’d see an ‘oligarchy’

03 Jun 2016

Paul Cartledge (Faculty of Classics) discusses what the ancient Greeks would think of our democracy.

Read more

Pages