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Democratic Deconsolidation in Developed Democracies, 1995-2018
The authors “show that levels of support for democratic governance are not stable over time, even among high-income democracies, and have declined in recent years” and “suggest that...a process of democratic deconsolidation can” as well (Mounk and Foa, 2019).
Mission-led employee-owned firms: The Best of the Best
This report examines mission-led employee firms as a “powerful model of enterprise design for a new era of environmental sustainability and social equity” (Stranahan and Kelly, 2019).
Common Goals, Different Approaches: How Five Cities Reimagined Their Public Spaces
"The disparate approaches chosen by the five cities… show clearly that there’s no simple right or wrong answer to the question of how to create a better civic commons. Instead, they offer different lessons for further efforts… to create a more sustainable and more integrated urban landscape in the future" (Wiener, 2019).
Data in Government
"The massive proliferation of data has fundamentally changed the systems of modern governance and development… This paper outlines how governments can harness data to advance their agendas and meet changing citizen expectations surround service delivery and technology" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2019).
Does increased ‘participation’ equal a new-found enthusiasm for democracy?
"2019 doesn't appear to be the year of a great global turnaround for democracy. Yet, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) also found a considerable increase in political participation worldwide. Though this development could give cause for optimism we believe it could also raise new concerns" (King and Nicol, 2019).
Democracy & Justice: Collected Writings, Vol. XII
This volume is a sample of the Brennan Center's work on all fronts in the fight for democracy and justice in 2018. (Brennan Center, 2019)
Raising their voices: How effective are pro-youth laws and policies?
"There is little research on whether pro-youth mechanisms actually improve youth engagement. This report begins to fill that gap by analyzing the effect on youth engagement of four specific pro-youth legal and political mechanisms: national youth policy strategies, reducing minimum ages for voting and candidacy, youth quotas, political party youth wings" (CEPPS, 2019).
Raising Their Voices: How Effective are Pro-Youth Laws and Policies?
This report analyzes “the effect on youth engagement of four specific pro-youth legal and political mechanisms: national youth policy strategies, reducing minimum ages for voting and candidacy, youth quotas, and political party youth wings” (CEPPS 2019).
Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape
This report demonstrates “deep polarization and growing tribalism” in the U.S. and both “shows that this polarization is rooted in something deeper than political opinions and disagreements” and “that 77 percent of Americans believe our differences are not so great that we cannot come together” (Yudkin et al., 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).
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