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This year at the World Economic Forum, FP’s Ravi Agrawal moderated the session ​​“Protecting Democracy Against Bots and Plots,” in discussion with both government ministers and the CEOs of technology companies. The panel included Jan Lipavský, the Czech Republic’s foreign minister; Smriti Zubin Irani, India’s minister of women and child development; André Kudelski, the chairman of the board and CEO of the Swiss-based Kudelski Group; Alexandra Reeve Givens, the CEO of the Center f...

Elections have consequences. What will happen when nearly half of the global population heads to the polls?

Political scientist Isabela Mares discusses her book, which examines the incentives that led politicians to pass electoral reforms in first-wave democracies.