You have to hand it to John McCain — his campaign ads are (inadvertently) the most incisive commentary on the death of Jeffersonian democracy ever broadcast. Superficially, they lambaste Barack ...

You have to hand it to John McCain ” his campaign ads are (inadvertently) the most incisive commentary on the death of Jeffersonian democracy ever broadcast. Superficially, they lambaste Barack ...

Perplexed by today’s turbulent American political scene? Not to worry: A distinguished political scientist wrote an essay 26 years ago that anticipated our predicament with eerie explanatory power.

THE debate over which is the better system of government between presidentialism and parliamentarianism is really yet to take off. It is subsumed under a far more fractious and cantankerous debate ...

Speaking at a launch of a book titled Militarism and the Dilemma of Post-colonial Statehood: The Case of Museveni’s Uganda, at Makerere University five years ago (in 2017), Prof Joe Oloka-Onyango said ...

Our nation faces the serious threat of electing Donald Trump for a second term despite his willingness, even enthusiasm, for gutting vital democratic norms. What appears to be a glitch in the U.S.

Perplexed by today’s turbulent US political scene? Not to worry: A distinguished political scientist wrote an essay 26 years ago that anticipated our predicament with eerie explanatory power. The ...

IT is important that the continent's intellectual community becomes honest and competent enough to make comprehensive analyses of the impact leadership has had in post-colonial Africa. We have seen ...

To opt for a parliamentary over a presidential form of government is arguably the most significant, yet under-analysed, decision made by the Indian constitution-makers. The conventional view is that ...