By most accounts 2024 will be the biggest electoral year of all time. Over four billion people will have turned out to the polls by year's end but only half of them will do so in free and fair elections. Why are elections so widespread now, even in places where they don't seem to count? And what's at stake globally in this year's elections.
The 2023 BBC Reith Lecturer and Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at the University of Oxford, Ben Ansell, will provide a tour to this most important political year. Along the way he will discuss the state of global democracy, why so many people in democracies worldwide feel dissatisfied with them, and whether our democracies are up to solving our most pressing global challenges from political polarisation, to rising inequality, to climate change.
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