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The Beginning of the End?
As people around the world ascribe less
importance to living in a democracy, what can
Western liberal democracies do to restore their
own appeal?
Socrates/Confucius dialogue
With the ideas, institutions and practice of liberal democracy - once a model for the world - coming under fierce attack from various directions, could ‘new’ insights for rebooting democracy be found in classical Greek and Chinese perspectives? What would the great philosophical sages of East and West say 25 centuries later?
Why Do Authoritarian Leaders Appeal Today?
This piece examines the contemporary influence of authoritarian leaders and demagogues and how "strongmen" take power at times of anxiety and vulnerability.
Partisan Dealignment and the Personalization of Politics in West European Parliamentary Democracies, 1961-2016
This article examines the relationship between partisan dealignment and the “personalization of politics” and looks into the “claim that leader effects on voting behaviour are increasing across time” (Garzia, Ferreira da Silva, De Angelis, 2018).
Rethinking Consensus vs. Majoritarian Democracy
"Arend Lijphart's distinction between two dimensions of consensus and majoritarian democracy has been an influential concept. However, several scholars have reported that the distinction does not travel well to other regions or historical periods. This paper argues, more generally, that Lijphart's dimensions can be replicated only when using Lijphart's own data" (Coppedge 2018).
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
"What explains successful democratization? In this paper, we propose a solution that allows researchers more fully to capture the liberalization period and then classify these episodic events according to their outcome: successful, failed, or censored episodes of democratization" (Lindberg et al., 2018).
Understanding the Voter Experience: The Public's View of Election Administration and Reform
This report provides insights into the state of public opinion about election administration and reform. The findings are primarily drawn from the 2008–2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), a survey conducted each federal election year since 2006.
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