This new report specifically anticipates risks to and from the major social media platforms in the 2024 elections, continuing CAP’s work to promote election integrity online and ensure free and fair elections globally. The report’s recommendations incorporate learnings from past elections and introduce new ideas to encourage technology platforms to safeguard democratic processes and mitigate election threats. In a world without standardized global social media regulation, ensuring elections are safe, accessible, and protected online and offline will require key actions to be taken ahead of any votes being cast—both in 2024 and beyond.
Topic:
Politics, Science and Technology, Elections, Democracy, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence
Political Geography:
Europe, India, Global Focus, and United States of America
In the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections of 2022, 58 assembly constituencies (ACs) will go to the polls. Polling will take place on 10 February, 2022. In this note, we first analyze and provide social context for the historical electoral trends across these 58 assembly constituencies. Second, in collaboration with Datalok, we provide a detailed analysis of polling booths from the 2017 state election. We show how the consolidation among Hindu voters in the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots drastically shifted electoral outcomes in the region, and we describe how current politics may affect electoral outcomes in the 2022 election.
Department of Political Science, University of the Punjab
Abstract:
When Muslim Leaders of the Subcontinent of India were trying to create a different
independent state for Muslims, the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah repeatedly used
the phrase “Separate state for the Minorities of India”. He demanded a state where all types
of minorities could live freely according to their religious teachings and norms. These
demands were very pleasing for all types of religious minorities of the Subcontinent, so few
of them supported the idea of Pakistan where anyone could live freely. The Christian
community supported the idea of Pakistan and made efforts to become part of it. There are
different speeches of Quaid-e-Azam that consist of praises of Christian leaders who were
helping the Muslim leadership. Despite the fact that Pakistan’s Objective Resolution and
Constitution of 1956 and 1962 gave equal rights to every citizen and religious liberty to
minorities, the Objective Resolution and Constitution of 1956 and 1962 are the most
condemned document which made Pakistan a theocracy. After liberty and freedom, political
rights are the most important rights for any person. This paper will try to find out the answer
to the question of how objective resolution, Constitution of 1956 and 1962 dealt with the
minority rights and their political rights. For this purpose in-depth study of all three
documents occurred along with different articles, news, research reports and books.
Topic:
Islam, Politics, Minorities, History, Christianity, and Hinduism
Political polarization is a process of simplifying politics by presenting either-or-choices to the public. In many cases, polarization damages democracy by dividing the electorate into two mutually mistrustful camps. Political polarization is mainly used by political elites, including government and party leaders, as a strategy to mobilize their supporters and concentrate their power. Based on the literature of political polarization, EAI Senior Fellow Sook Jong Lee (professor at Sungkyunkwan University) examines four Asian case countries (India, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand). The author notes that characteristics of political polarization differ from country to country, which is evidenced through the division of political ideology during various Thai military coups and the separation between the Hindu and Muslim communities in India. She also warns against the possible aftermaths of political polarization such as the breakdown or erosion of democracy.
Topic:
Politics, Democracy, Polarization, and Democratic Backsliding
Political Geography:
India, Asia, South Korea, Philippines, and Thailand