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August 19, 2022

♟️ Why autocrats’ strategies of legitimation are worth studying

Nahla El-Menshawy

Legitimacy is as vital to the consolidation of authoritarian regimes as it is in democracies, where it is more studied. Nahla El-Menshawy illustrates how regime type, ideology, and historical legacies influence autocratic legitimation strategies

August 16, 2022

📐 Measuring human rights: facing a necessary challenge

Eduardo Burkle

Reliable, accessible human rights data is vital to track the human rights performance of countries worldwide. Good data can help create a world where those rights are better understood and fulfilled. Discussing measurement projects, new methodologies, and the limits of human rights data is therefore vital, writes Eduardo Burkle

August 15, 2022

🦋 The critical pedagogy of democracy in dark times

Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux takes stock of the sciences of the democracies to argue that they offer helpful tools to contest the neoliberalisation of education and the teaching of democracy. The words of democracy, the ideas imbued in them, are vital resources for an age characterised by the desertification of public spheres

August 12, 2022

♟️ Before categorising autocracies, we need to count them accurately

Edward Goldring

Hager Ali launched this series by pointing out that 'we lack the terminology to do anything beyond counting non-democracies'. Yet Edward Goldring argues that we sometimes struggle to accurately do that. This raises troubling questions for analyses of non-democracies – and emphasises the importance of studying history

August 11, 2022

Dissatisfaction drives democratic scepticism in Eastern Europe

Kiran Auerbach

What explains democratic skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe? Kiran Auerbach and Bilyana Petrova show that post-communist citizens’ low support for democracy is linked to dissatisfaction with the way democracy is practiced in their countries

August 10, 2022

🦋 Designing democracy: let the people choose how to govern themselves

Brigitte Geißel

Most people agree that citizens are the sovereign in a democracy, but this principle is amazingly neglected when it comes to the design of democracy. Brigitte Geißel advocates for a new approach. Democracy means self-governing, so citizens should decide how to govern themselves

August 5, 2022

Does the International Monetary Fund undermine human security?

Bernhard Reinsberg

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not only a ‘lender of last resort’ but also a security actor. New data and analysis from Bernhard Reinsberg and Daniel Shaw at the University of Glasgow shows that IMF interventions often have a negative effect on human security

August 5, 2022

🌊 Orbán’s racist rhetoric: a desperate domestic power grab

Kinga Korányi

Viktor Orbán’s condemned speech at Băile Tușnad marks a dangerous turn towards fascist rhetoric. But it also reveals a larger narrative overlooked by international observers. Orbán’s party could be undergoing programmatic realignment to attract support from far-right voters in a time when his party faces great insecurity, writes Kinga Koranyi

August 2, 2022

Is the EU any more progressive on abortion policy than post-Roe America?

Danielle Pullan

SCOTUS recently overturned the federal right to abortion, leaving many open questions about the future of abortion policy, both in the US and around the globe. Danielle Pullan compares the new post-Roe abortion policy landscape in the US to the current state of abortion governance in Europe, highlighting its similarity to the EU’s approach

July 29, 2022

Women’s football in Central and Eastern Europe: from anti-communist revolutions to gender politics

Roland Benedikter

In women’s international football, teams from Western Europe dominate, while Central and Eastern European countries are absent. Roland Benedikter and Dariusz Wojtaszyn explore why women’s football apparently enjoys more success in Western than in Eastern Europe, and whether there is an appetite for change

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♟️ Why autocrats’ strategies of legitimation are worth studying

📐 Measuring human rights: facing a necessary challenge

🦋 The critical pedagogy of democracy in dark times

♟️ Before categorising autocracies, we need to count them accurately

Dissatisfaction drives democratic scepticism in Eastern Europe

🦋 Designing democracy: let the people choose how to govern themselves

Does the International Monetary Fund undermine human security?

🌊 Orbán’s racist rhetoric: a desperate domestic power grab

Is the EU any more progressive on abortion policy than post-Roe America?

Women’s football in Central and Eastern Europe: from anti-communist revolutions to gender politics

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