The World Heads to the Polls

One of the busiest election cycles in history is coming to an end on Sunday. Hundreds of millions of people have gone to the polls in South Africa, India and Mexico in recent days, and millions more will do the same in the European Union this weekend.As Somini Sengupta has explained in a series of articles this week, among the issues that the new leaders of these countries will face: how to transition away from…