We are an independent editorial desk covering the institutions, ideas, and inflection points shaping contemporary political life — without partisanship, without paywalls, and without pretense.
Politanalyse was founded in 2021 by a small group of political scientists, investigative reporters, and policy analysts who shared a quiet frustration: public debate was running faster than the evidence supporting it. Statements circulated as fact. Statistics were repeated without source. Slogans replaced the careful work of measuring what governments actually do — and what they fail to do.
We set out to build a different kind of publication. One that treats political life as something to be examined with rigor: primary documents first, expert voices second, opinion last. Six years on, we publish daily analyses, long-form investigations, and data-driven explainers that readers across Europe and the Americas rely on to understand the decisions shaping their lives. We are reader-supported, advertisement-light, and accountable to a clear set of editorial standards published in full on this page.
Editorial independence is not a slogan. It is a set of daily practices — about who funds us, how we verify, and how we handle disagreement with the people we cover.
We accept no advertising from political parties, governments, or advocacy organizations. Our funding comes from individual readers, university partnerships, and a small endowment — disclosed in full in our annual transparency report.
Pillar 01Every claim that can be sourced is sourced. Every statistic links to its original dataset. Every contested claim is labeled. When we are wrong, we publish a correction that is more visible than the original error.
Pillar 02We cover parliaments, courts, regulators, and administrations — the structures that translate votes into consequences. Personality-driven politics is covered when it shapes policy, and never as an end in itself.
Pillar 03A snapshot of our reach, our rigor, and the community that makes our work possible.
Every piece follows a documented editorial process — from question to publication to correction. Transparency about method is, for us, part of the analysis itself.
Every analysis begins with a precise, falsifiable question — for example, “Has judicial review actually expanded since the 2023 reform?” — and a list of documents and data needed to answer it.
Drafts circulate among at least one subject-matter expert, one editor, and one fact-checker. We disclose on the record vs. on background, and we name our sources whenever legally possible.
Corrections are appended to the article, dated, and — when material — announced to subscribers. We publish an annual corrections report every January so readers can audit our track record.
Politanalyse is edited by a small, multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in comparative politics, data journalism, constitutional law, and public administration.
Editor-in-Chief
Comparative politics, PhD Sciences Po. Previously a researcher at the European Parliament and a contributor to three policy journals.
Data & Investigations Editor
Statistician turned journalist. Leads our data desk and the annual State of Democracy report, with prior work at Reuters and OCCRP.
Senior Correspondent, West Africa
Reports on regional institutions and electoral governance from Lagos. Former constitutional lawyer and policy fellow at the Africa Governance Initiative.
EU Institutions Correspondent
Based in Brussels. Covers the European Commission, Parliament, and the slow machinery of EU regulatory politics with patience and precision.
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