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September 28, 2023

🦋 What we (don’t) talk about when we talk about democracy

Alex Prior

Examining the first 99 entries in our Science of Democracy series, Alex Prior identifies an asymmetry between references to people (demos) and power (kratos). Through a discussion of this asymmetry and its possible causes, he calls for increased attention to power, in the sense of its ability to effect change

September 28, 2023

🔮 The resurgence of agrarian populism

Matthijs Rooduijn

Matthijs Rooduijn and Sarah de Lange argue that recent developments provide fertile ground for the resurgence of agrarian populism. The rise of the Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement gives an idea of what such a resurgence might look like in the years to come

September 27, 2023

Poland's polarisation: Kaczyński, Tusk, and the shifting conflict

Piotr Marczyński

Neither Poland's government nor its opposition has a straightforward path toward an electoral majority. Meanwhile, personal conflict between Jarosław Kaczyński and Donald Tusk dominates the news cycle. Piotr Marczyński argues this configuration reflects the shallow roots of the Polish party system, with axes of polarisation gradually realigning along ideological lines

September 6, 2023

🔮 Populism: left or right?

Dani Filc

Are populist movements necessarily left or right? Dani Filc argues that populism is too complex a phenomenon to easily fit easily into the conventional political dimensions of left and right

September 5, 2023

♟️ Authoritarianism and immigration policy: Tunisia shows it's not that straightforward

Katharina Natter

Throughout 2023 Tunisia's immigration policies have made headlines, with authoritarian President Saied’s xenophobic speech, a new EU-Tunisia migration deal, and repeated protests condemning violence against Black migrants. But authoritarianism doesn’t inevitably result in increased migrant rights violations. Nor, however, does democratisation guarantee improved rights, as Katharina Natter shows

August 31, 2023

🦋 Mnemonic democracy: the role of memory in politics

Jenny Wüstenberg

Memory is crucial for democracy, but not only because it can teach citizens important norms like tolerance and inclusion. Mnemonic democracy would also mean taking into account whether the views of the majority are represented and public memory is underpinned by legitimate state power, Jenny Wüstenberg writes

August 30, 2023

Five years of ‘Fridays for Future’: but what future is there now for the movement?

Carina Siebler

Carina Siebler, Leonhard Schmidt, Lennart Schürmann and Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti examine the success and changing strategy of the Fridays for Future movement. Under the impact of the pandemic and the rise of competing protest groups, the movement is adapting its strategy to advocate for social climate policies amid a changing political landscape

August 29, 2023

European space policy and the EU’s ‘Outermost Regions’

Diogo Vieira Ferreira

Space technology sees increased use in warfare. This has generated great concern for the European Union’s capacity to maintain a stable space policy. Diogo Vieira Ferreira argues that the effective development of European space policy requires the participation and input of the so-called ‘Outermost Regions’ as strategic actors

August 25, 2023

🔮 The thin and chamaeleonic nature of demand for populism

Elena Baro

Scholars have been trying to understand what unifies voters of populist parties and what the prototypical populist voter looks like. Elena Baro proposes a new perspective in the study of the demand-side, that of embracing what makes the study of populism challenging: its thin and chameleonic nature

August 24, 2023

Estimating troop losses on both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war

Benjamin J. Radford

In the wake of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, Benjamin J. Radford, Yaoyao Dai, Niklas Stoehr, Aaron Schein, Mya Fernandez, and Hanif Sajid have developed a model to better estimate the loss numbers obscured by the fog of war and the biases of somereporting sources

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🦋 What we (don’t) talk about when we talk about democracy

🔮 The resurgence of agrarian populism

Poland's polarisation: Kaczyński, Tusk, and the shifting conflict

🔮 Populism: left or right?

♟️ Authoritarianism and immigration policy: Tunisia shows it's not that straightforward

🦋 Mnemonic democracy: the role of memory in politics

Five years of ‘Fridays for Future’: but what future is there now for the movement?

European space policy and the EU’s ‘Outermost Regions’

🔮 The thin and chamaeleonic nature of demand for populism

Estimating troop losses on both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war

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