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March 29, 2023

🔮 Social media: populists’ partners in crime

Laura Jacobs

Social media play a key role in amplifying populist messages. The resulting misinformation, political polarisation, and the proliferation of hate speech, pose challenges for democracy. Laura Jacobs steps into the populist echo chamber

March 28, 2023

Is the SNP a vanguard for Scottish independence?

Ruairidh Brown

The current crisis around the Scottish National Party leadership centres on the party's position as a vanguard for Scottish independence, writes Ruairidh Brown. It could subsequently mark a watershed moment in the independence movement

March 27, 2023

Macron’s gamble on pensions reform

Giovanni Capoccia

The French President has pushed through his signature reform of the French pensions system against widespread opposition. Yet, argues Giovanni Capoccia, the fight is not over, and the stakes are high – and not just for France

March 24, 2023

📐 Surveying the landscape of human rights data

Anne-Marie Brook

Accurate data are needed to track human rights performance worldwide. But the range of different data sources available can be confusing, especially to non-experts. Anne-Marie Brook and Kobe Amos explain what qualities set Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) data apart

March 24, 2023

🦋 How to create meaningful democracy in our social lives

Peter Donkor

Peter Donkor argues that the democratisation of our social lives is contingent upon a democratic political sphere. Doubling down on 'spillover theory', he urges governments to lead bolder democratisation efforts to show how ever-more democratic procedures are, indeed, preferable to authoritarian regimes and authoritarianism at home, school, work and beyond

March 23, 2023

Can Germany lead the EU’s geopolitical efforts in Latin America?

Carlos José Cruz Infante

The EU could learn valuable lessons from German Chancellor Scholz’s recent official visit to South America, writes Carlos Cruz Infante. Scholz showed a diplomacy formula that could leverage the Union’s geopolitical influence in the region

March 23, 2023

🌈 Left-wing populism, democratic erosion, and patriarchy

Jennifer M. Piscopo

Scholars and journalists tend to focus on the misogyny of right-wing autocrats. But Jennifer Piscopo argues that we shouldn't overlook the patriarchal attitudes of left-wing populists. They may not directly attack women and gender minorities, but they also roll back gender equality gains

March 21, 2023

🦋 'Rationalising democracy': explaining a common logic

Suthan Krishnarajan

Why do people committed to democracy explicitly support undemocratic behaviour by their politicians? Suthan Krishnarajan argues that it all comes down to perception. Sometimes, politicians establish policies that attract widespread support, but they do so in an undemocratic fashion. Citizens then 'rationalise democracy' to reassure themselves that politicians are indeed acting in their best interests

March 21, 2023

🔮 Three die-hard myths about populism

Mattia Zulianello

Mattia Zulianello and Petra Guasti explore and rebut three die-hard myths about populism. This, they argue, on the one hand guards against overestimating populism as a phenomenon. On the other, it warns that we must not underestimate the political strength of the so-called populist radical right

March 16, 2023

Politicians must share deliberative power to increase legitimacy

Anne Nygaard Jedzini

The threat of sanctions or coercive power is key to how governments make public good outcomes. To increase the legitimacy of coercive power and address illegitimate forms of power such as control and corruption, Anne Nygaard Jedzini argues that politicians need to share power with citizens through deliberation

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🔮 Social media: populists’ partners in crime

Is the SNP a vanguard for Scottish independence?

Macron’s gamble on pensions reform

📐 Surveying the landscape of human rights data

🦋 How to create meaningful democracy in our social lives

Can Germany lead the EU’s geopolitical efforts in Latin America?

🌈 Left-wing populism, democratic erosion, and patriarchy

🦋 'Rationalising democracy': explaining a common logic

🔮 Three die-hard myths about populism

Politicians must share deliberative power to increase legitimacy

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