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Study power, governance, and political systems — democracy, authoritarianism, electoral theory, political behavior, and the institutions that shape how societies are governed.

Freedom House's annual survey tracks democratic governance worldwide, and their 2024 report marked the 18th consecutive year of global democratic decline, with only 20% of the world's population living in "free" countries. Aristotle classified governments into six types in his "Politics" (circa 350 BC) — monarchy, aristocracy, polity, tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy — a typology that remained influential for over 2,000 years. The median voter theorem, formalized by Duncan Black in 1948, demonstrates mathematically that in a two-party system, both parties tend to converge toward the preferences of the median voter, helping explain why political platforms often seem similar despite heated rhetoric.

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