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Performance and Policy-Based Budgeting: How to Spot the Fakes
"Andrew Laing, ISE’s Public Economics Practice Manager, analyzes the key components of performance and policy-based budgeting and how practitioners can test budget systems to spot the often fine lines between best practice and poor performance" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2019).
We the People: A Philanthropic Guide to Strengthening Democracy
Surveys show “declining confidence in democracy among Americans. While many factors contribute to this growing sense that democracy is weakening, there are practical and thoughtful efforts underway to reverse these sentiments”. This report “creates a framework for anyone looking to strengthen the democratic system” (Center for High Impact Philanthropy, 2019).
What Can Be Done About the Problem of Political Parties?
"In a world of declining political party influence, protest movements and organized labor have increasingly served as vehicles to express grievances and channel political action. However, the limits of protest movements and labor unions’ activities… point to the essential role that political parties play in holding governments to account" (Liddiard 2019).
Rules of engagement between the UN and private actors
This report details potential “rules of engagement between the UN and private actors”, “Towards a regulatory and institutional framework” (Martens and Seitz, 2019).
Empowering EU against state capture through a new monitoring tool
"State capture...is a specific security risk for the EU" and "there is a lack of proper prevention and detection tools in place to curb corruption effectively in its many forms and across the different jurisdictions in the EU... As corrupt practices evolve, EU Member States need to respond by deepening their capacity to tackle new and more complex forms but also to better share existing knowledge" (Mideva and Todor Galev, 2019).
Strengthening Democracy: What Do Americans Think?
“This report summarizes findings from the first Yankelovich Democracy Monitor, a nationally representative survey of 1,000 American adults 18 and older. The survey was fielded from September 14 through October 15, 2018, by telephone, including cell phones, and online” (American Academy of Art and Sciences, 2020).
Is Populism Really a Problem for Democracy?
"Populism offers the promise of democratic renewal... But while populist parties in power can make politics more representative, they can undermine accountability... Populists in government can also erode the institutional checks on executive power necessary for durable democracy… and populist mobilization has precipitated democratic breakdown" (Liddiard 2019).
You Have Our Attention: Youth political engagement in Canada
This report examines differences across age groups in three areas of democratic participation: communication, formal political participation, and community civic engagement. We also reflect on how youth may participate in the 2019 election.
The overlooked side of the ecological transition
“This discussion paper aims to stimulate a debate on how to support a sustainable ecological transition, taking into consideration aspects ranging from cost, financing and the facilitation of a whole-of-society approach to decarbonisation” and addresses “dilemmas that are regularly overlooked in the conversation on the ecological transition” (European Commission, 2019).
The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow
"The health of local economies today will affect their ability to adapt and thrive in the automation age" (Lund et. al., 2019).
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