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 ...

It is this challenge that has led International IDEA to adopt foresight and futures methodologies, a set of practices that in ...

The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast amounts of carbon and the alarming levels of climate-heating carbon dioxide ...

The report’s lead author said such declines tend to be associated with increased support for populist and anti-establishment parties.