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Supporting Deliberative Systems with Referendums and Initiatives
“This article builds on this literature to argue that referendums and initiatives can serve deliberative systems by incentivising representatives to engage in recursive representation – namely, conversation-like exchange at the mass level with the represented deemed essential to deliberative systems” (el-Wakil, 2020).
A Turbulent Decade: The Changes in Chinese Popular Attitudes Toward Democracy
This paper “investigates the changes in popular attitudes toward democracy” where “Results show that online discussion around democracy has decreased and voices questioning democracy have become pronounced” and “increasing doubts about democracy are not necessarily translated into a strong authoritarian legitimacy.” (Zhang 2020)
When Corruption Funds the Political System: A Case Study of Honduras
In this report, Sabet explores four most salient types of corruption in Honduras: embezzlement of social development funds, procurement corruption, organized crime corruption, and patronage abuses in the bureaucracy. While each is distinct, in all four cases, corrupt proceeds help fund political campaigns, making corruption a core input to the political system. Sabet explores several potential sources of accountability to prevent and respond to these challenges.
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights In Constitutions Assessment Tool
The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Constitutions Assessment Tool helps users analyze a constitution from the perspective of indigenous peoples’ rights. Using a series of questions, explanations and examples from other global constitutions, the Assessment Tool guides its users through the text of a constitution and allows for systematic analysis of the language and provisions in it. (Cats-Baril, 2020).
Transitional Justice And Social Cohesion (Re)Construction In African Countries During The Covid-19 Pandemic
A new report, ‘Global Democracy and COVID-19: Upgrading International Support’, was published on 15 July and highlights how some governments are using the public health crisis to further curtail democratic activities and provides recommendations for policymakers and civil society to counteract the negative impacts of COVID-19 on democracy. (IDEA, 2020).
Engaging Public Spaces: A Review And Toolkit
This report reviews “existing research on downtown revitalization, equitable economic development and public space activation to investigate” the question “As communities across the country work to revitalize downtowns and neighborhoods, which metrics indicate progress or success?” (Knight Foundation, 2020).
Measuring Progress Toward Downtown Revitalization
"Knight commissioned Community Science to conduct a review of existing research on downtown revitalization, equitable economic development and public space activation to investigate these questions. The purpose of this report is to share learnings about what to measure in order to support similar efforts, post-COVID-19 recovery and steps to eliminate racial inequities in United States cities" (Knight Foundation, 2020).
American Views 2020: Trust, Media and Democracy
“The low levels of public trust in the nation's polarized media environment have left open the possibility for dangerous false narratives to take root” and…”the striking trends documented in these pages are cause for concern” (American Academy of Art & Sciences, 2020).
Twilight of the Liberal Right
“Liberal democracy per se was never the animating passion of the trans-Atlantic right — anti-Communism was. When the threat of Communist expansion disappeared, so did most of the right’s commitment to a set of values that, it’s now evident, were purely instrumental” (Michelle Goldberg, 2020).
Global Democracy & Covid-19
This report considers the implications that COVID-19 has had on international democracy. The use of practice policies efforts needs to ensure that current democratic norms are altered including emergency and recovery aid and efforts to explore growth in new types of democracies that have come out of the pandemic. (IDEA, 2020).
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