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The University of Brasília will host the first edition of the International Conference “Futures of Democracy,” organized by the Institute of Political Science and International IDEA, on 8-9 December 2025.

La Universidad de Brasilia será sede de la primera edición de la Conferencia Internacional Los Futuros de la Democracia, organizada por el Instituto de Ciencia Política e IDEA Internacional los días 8 y 9 de diciembre de 2025.

Ahead of COP30, to take place in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025, the gap between urgently needed climate action and global governance responses remains. Citizen deliberation has emerged as a leading example of democratic governance innovations to address this gap by raising the ambition and legitimacy of climate policy. 

This policy paper examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on information integrity in electoral contexts across Latin America. Drawing on case studies from Brazil’s and Mexico’s 2024 elections, it analyses how AI tools are used to create, curate and moderate political content online, with particular attention to their effects on marginalized groups such as women, Indigenous communities and LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Explore the evolving landscape of digital campaigning and its impact on political finance. This report examines key challenges and opportunities in regulating online fundraising, spending and transparency.

In Brazil, Internet and social media have been long used by political parties and candidates to campaign, but it was only in 2017 that organic electoral advertising on social media, social media boosting and paid promotion in web search engines were included in the list of permitted electoral campaign expenditures.

This Case Study is part of The Global State of Democracy 2023 Report. 

En este informe se presenta un análisis de la participación política de diversos grupos poblacionales identificados como grupos discriminados en América Latina: las mujeres, las personas indígenas, las personas afrodescendientes, la población joven, las personas con

La polarización tóxica amenaza a varias democracias en el mundo. En diversas sociedades se enfrentan extremos políticos que desconfían uno del otro y se presentan sin posibilidades de entendimiento.

This case study examines several kinds of risks to electoral integrity present in Brazil and the role that the Electoral Justice plays in preventing and combating them. It addresses the risks, describing in each case the preventive policies as well as occasions on which some risks have materialized as threats. The paper also highlights some crisis management procedures in particular timely communication and proactive tools.

The storming of Brazil’s Congress and Supreme Court as well as the deadly anti-government protests in Peru underline the challenges facing democracy in Latin America. Why are the legitimacy of governments being questioned? What is behind the increasing political polarization of the region? And are their grounds anywhere for optimism?