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Education for Preventing Violent Extremism
This report “presents key recommendations, challenges, actionable solutions, and practical examples for policymakers to implement appropriate educational approaches to preventing violent extremism (PVE) in the formal education setting” and “seeks to integrate informal education” and suggest ways “the formal education sector and informal education overlap” (Club de Madrid, 2019).
Exporting Digital Authoritarianism: The Russian and Chinese Models
Polyakova and Meserole claim that “digital authoritarianism — the use of digital information technology by authoritarian regimes to surveil, repress, and manipulate domestic and foreign populations — is reshaping the power balance between democracies and autocracies” (Polyakova and Meserole, 2019).
Free Speech Unlimited
HRF’s Free Speech Unlimited project analyzes domestic legal systems from all world countries, and contrasts them with international law’s most strict and protective standards for the right to freedom of expression. It was designed with to help and civil society groups understand their country’s free speech regulations, and includes information on at least one important free speech case per country. (Human Rights Foundation, 2019)
V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019. Democracy Facing Global Challenges
"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) produces the largest global dataset on democracy with some 27 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2018." This report details the state of democracy in 2018 and presents data for democratically advancing and declining states around the world and global challenges.
China’s Algorithms of Repression
“This report provides a detailed description and analysis of a mobile app that police and other officials use to communicate with the Integrated Joint Operations Platform” to determine “the kinds of behaviors and people this mass surveillance system targets” (Human Rights Watch 2019).
When Democracy has a Fever: States of Emergency as a Symptom and Accelerator of Autocratization
"States of emergency grant chief executives the power to bypass democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats... States of emergency should be associated with a heightened risk of autocratization... This paper tests this relationship using data on sixty democracies for 1974 to 2016" (Lührman and Rooney, 2019).
Autocracy and Variation in Economic Development Outcomes
This paper discusses “the vast variation in development outcomes among autocracies, focusing on economic growth. It highlight plausible explanations of this variation pertaining to features of the leader, institutions, or the regime’s support coalition. It presents patterns and tests corroborating that variation in growth is higher among autocracies than democracies" (Carl Henrik Knutsen, 2018).
Whistleblowers for Change: The Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Leaking and Whistleblowing
"In this report, whistleblowers from eight European countries describe what they experienced after they took a stand. Additionally, civil society experts weigh in on how the EU can craft policies to better protect whistleblowers. The question of how to define whistleblowing…is also explored" (Open Society Foundation, 2018).
Democracy and the Law
“Law should govern,” declared Aristotle,
proclaiming a fundamental principle of democratic
rule now under threat as illiberal leaders assail
the independence of the courts. What is the
response? What is the role of transnational legal
bodies?
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