Not enough attention is paid to the local political culture of Palestine. Here are (poorly machine-translated) snippets of several electoral campaigns from political parties that fielded candidates for the 2017 local elections in the town of Beit Fajjar in the West Bank:
Elon Musk's City of Starbase is a democracy desert only one year after incorporation, canceling its first regular general election for officers due to zero contestation. Very similar to the Disney district cities of Bay Lake & Lake Buena Vista in Florida. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
There have been concerns over the use of Twitter for public opinion research after the exodus during the last few years. Pew Research shows that Bluesky has 54% fewer conservative opinion leaders than Twitter.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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My first paper has been published in the Election Law Journal! I am very proud of Florida’s Democracy Deserts, an article I wrote with @electproject.bsky.social and @electionsmith.bsky.social, to whom I am tremendously grateful. It is a culmination of 3 years of work. doi.org/10.1177/1533...
