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January 6, 2023

♟️ Authoritarian practices with adjectives in China

Abbey Heffer

Authoritarian regimes are not centralised monoliths. In China, authoritarian responses to protest can differ dramatically across localities. Abbey Heffer argues that research on regime-level authoritarianism often overlooks decentralisation. Studying aspects of authoritarianism, such as protest repression and concessions, requires a practice-based approach that reconciles national and localised authoritarianism

January 5, 2023

Is the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index little more than a joke indicator?

Nicolás Palomo Hernández

The public and the media increasingly use Democratic Global Performance Indicators (GPIs). But how good are these indicators at measuring democratic health? Nicolás Palomo Hernández looks at the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index as an example. He argues that the index has methodological and ideological biases, yet significant impact nonetheless

December 1, 2022

Peace in our time in Ukraine

Albrecht Rothacher

Albrecht Rothacher argues that an end to hostilities in Ukraine in the context of a Peace Plan is not unforeseeable. It is in the interest of all sides. He identifies the steps that need to be taken and the people likely to be involved

November 22, 2022

The disunity of the Italian centre-left opposition on Ukraine

Valerio Alfonso Bruno

Russia’s war on Ukraine has split the Italian centre-left opposition between pacifists and those arguing in favour of arming Ukraine. Disunity on how to respond to the crisis, write Valerio Alfonso Bruno, James F. Downes and Alessio Scopelliti, will likely weaken these parties and strengthen Meloni's right-wing coalition

November 21, 2022

War in Ukraine: are negotiations possible?

Alexandr Burilkov

Faced with the successful Ukrainian counteroffensive, and with military costs mounting, the Russian elite has splintered into bickering factions. Alexandr Burilkov argues that the nationalist information space is exerting significant pressure on Putin to continue and escalate the war. This makes negotiations and a lasting ceasefire unlikely

November 18, 2022

Citizen assemblies must report on expert diversity and inclusion

Jen Roberts

Deliberative approaches like citizen assemblies are gaining traction, particularly to inform climate policy. To ensure the legitimacy of these processes, Jen Roberts and her team argue that the process of selecting experts involved in citizen deliberations should be transparent, and must consider diversity and inclusivity

November 17, 2022

📐Turkey shows us why it's hard to resist human rights violations through the courts

Gabriela Patricia García García

Human rights organisations in Turkey face a predicament. In using the law to confront human rights violations by the government, they then experience those violations themselves. Legal mobilisation against democratic backsliding has its limits, argues Gabriela García García

November 16, 2022

🦋 Democracy as a problem

Michael Hanchard

Michael Hanchard argues that there is no singular scientific method that is the property of democracy. Instead, we should, as WEB Dubois suggests, treat democracy as a problem replete with many possibilities for expansion and contraction, regardless of its normative and conceptual status as an aspiration and ideal type

November 14, 2022

California’s Cap-and-Trade Program can serve as a model for emissions reductions

Jason Gray

California’s carbon market design and inclusion of its Cap-and-Trade Program within its broader suite of measures helped the state reduce emissions drastically, and set the stage for its mid- and long-term goals. The program, according to Jason Gray, may serve as a model for jurisdictions contemplating their own emissions trading systems

November 10, 2022

🦋 Making and keeping democracy visible

Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

One aim of the sciences of the democracies is to find different ways of making and keeping democracy visible, argues Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach. Practitioners and imaginers of democracies are doing this job. They help to understand and transform the realities of democracies – step by step – for the sake of democracy

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♟️ Authoritarian practices with adjectives in China

Is the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index little more than a joke indicator?

Peace in our time in Ukraine

The disunity of the Italian centre-left opposition on Ukraine

War in Ukraine: are negotiations possible?

Citizen assemblies must report on expert diversity and inclusion

📐Turkey shows us why it's hard to resist human rights violations through the courts

🦋 Democracy as a problem

California’s Cap-and-Trade Program can serve as a model for emissions reductions

🦋 Making and keeping democracy visible

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