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Under the leadership of Professor Kurt Huebner, UBC Political Science offers a range of educational opportunities for students to explore European politics with opportunities to learn both in Europe and across North America.

Congratulations to the Class of 2023! We celebrate the accomplishments of our graduates and wish them the very best in their future endeavours.

Recent political crises in Peru, Brazil, and the United States have exposed a new threat to democracy: electoral denialism, or misleading claims about fraud intended to prevent normal alteration in public office between government and opposition. Electoral denialism weakens the core electoral components of democracy by encouraging a substantial part of the electorate to distrust elections as a mechanism for conflict resolution.