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  1. The Economist23 min

    Billions of voices heard: a year of elections

    Rosie Bloor, Ed Carr, Gabriel Crossley, Maria Wilczek

    The 2024 global election cycle saw Donald Trump secure a decisive US victory and marked a surge in right-wing populism across Europe, challenging centrist technocratic rule in nations like Germany and France. Simultaneously, major shifts occurred in autocracies such as Russia and Bangladesh, while India and South Africa delivered rejections of unchecked nationalism through coalition governments. Parallel political and economic trends emerged in China, where urbanization is pivoting from megacities to provincial hubs, and in Poland, where communist-era "milk bars" face subsidy cuts while modernizing to survive rising operational costs.