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Lift Every Voice: The Urgency of Universal Civic Duty Voting
This report proposes universal civic duty voting as a necessary step toward full electoral participation and thus wider and more comprehensive and inclusive representation in the body of voters and resulting issue decisions and opinions. The authors also claim that civic duty voting will challenge contemporary voter suppression efforts.
Democracy in Southeast Asia: Between Discontent and Hope
This report examines Southeast Asia’s democratic discontent and its strategic implications for the region. Drawing on empirical data and informed by conversations with officials and practitioners, it argues that Southeast Asia’s democratic discontent is rooted in several key strategic drivers and creates both opportunities and challenges that need to be properly understood and managed by regional states and external actors, including the United States and like-minded partners.
An Advocacy Toolkit for Fiscal Justice and Human Rights
“The aim of the Toolkit is to support organizations interested in carrying out effective advocacy on fiscal policy issues using the human rights lens/approach as an instrument” (Center for Economic and Social Rights, 2020).
Gender Justice in global Supply Chains
“This paper focuses on women and girls because of their strong presence in numerous supply chains. They experience economic human rights violations in different ways to men. The reasons for this range from discriminatory socio-economic structures and practices to patriarchal and class-based social and cultural norms” (Borkenhagen et al., 2020).
Deliberative democracy and progressivism
"Democracy doesn’t always best represent the interests of citizens. How can we make democracy more inclusive and transparent? Promoting active citizenship would be a good place to start" (Sotgiu 2020).
COVID-19 and the SDGs
"For each of the 17 SDGs, this briefing summarizes preliminary estimates on the actual or likely impacts of the global coronavirus crisis” and “illustrates that the 2030 Agenda will not be reached” and SDGs “will not be achieved if they are not systematically taken into account" (Martens et al., 2020).
New Forms Of Political Party Membership
This Primer analyse the new forms of political party membership and presents how different parties and contexts have given birth to different ways of engaging citizens in the party’s life. (IDEA, 2020)
Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century
This report “presents 31 recommendations - across political institutions, political culture, and civil society - which are the product of...nearly 50 listening sessions with Americans... which sought to understand how American citizens could obtain the values, knowledge, and skills to become better citizens” (American Academy of Art and Sciences, 2020).
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave
This article explains how the "deliberative wave" has been gaining momentum and explores reasons “for embedding deliberative activities into public institutions to give citizens a more permanent and meaningful role in shaping the policies affecting their lives” (Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave, OECD Publishing).
Reopening the World: How the Pandemic is Reinforcing Authoritarianism
This report looks at the impact of Covid in authoritarianism and democracy, finding that “during—and after—the pandemic, governments are likely to use long, protracted crises to undermine domestic opposition and curtail civil liberties” and determining that Covid-19 is reopening conflict between the use of democracy and authoritarianism (Hamid 2020).
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