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August 25, 2022

The political potential of placemaking

Ryan Salzman

For Ryan Salzman, placemaking is a viable form of political participation that has the potential to meet or exceed some forms of traditional participation in democratic effectiveness. It is time we recognised these contemporary alternatives to traditional political participation so that we can truly understand twenty-first century democracy

August 24, 2022

The Italian elections and the threat to European integration

Giovanni Capoccia

The Italian right, led by the Brothers of Italy, is likely to be in government after the September 2022 elections. Despite its public statements expressing ‘full support’ for the European integration process, Giovanni Capoccia says that there are good reasons to question the exact nature of this commitment and what it means

August 24, 2022

Failures in constitutional design are at the heart of the crisis in western democracies

Timothy Hellwig

Timothy Hellwig explores the political crises in three European democracies (France, Italy and the UK) to argue that failures in constitutional design are at the root of their problems. These failures, moreover, are not dissimilar to those experienced in the United States, suggesting this is a current affliction of western democracies

August 23, 2022

🦋 ♟️ Control over militaries is the forgotten landmark of democracy after imperialism

Hager Ali

When democracies’ most basic features lose their distinctive edge, differentiating regime types becomes a problem for scholars of democracy and autocracy alike. Hager Ali wants to redraw demarcations between regimes across the political spectrum. To do so, she argues that civilian control over militaries is just as fundamental as suffrage

August 22, 2022

📐 El Salvador aims high but scores low on the right to education

Pablo C. Santos-Pineda

Pablo Santos-Pineda uses the Human Rights Measurement Initiative scores to evaluate El Salvador’s performance in fulfilling the right to education. This performance has been poor, and many children would benefit from strategic changes in its policies

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

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The political potential of placemaking

The Italian elections and the threat to European integration

Failures in constitutional design are at the heart of the crisis in western democracies

🦋 ♟️ Control over militaries is the forgotten landmark of democracy after imperialism

📐 El Salvador aims high but scores low on the right to education

♟️ 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

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