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Democracy and Civic Life: What Is the Long Game for Philanthropy?
To explore where philanthropy might make more of a difference, the Kettering Foundation and the Knight Foundation invited leading thinkers on the future of our democracy to write about the challenges and opportunities for American democracy and what role philanthropy can play in addressing those challenges.
Connections 2020: The Work of Democratic Citizenship
This report by the Kettering Foundation includes a set of experiments and findings related to democracy, democratic citizenship, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy
"Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world… As a result... Freedom House found that 2019 was the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom" (Freedom House 2020).
Advocacy in Restricted Spaces: A Toolkit for Civil Society
The Advocacy in Restricted Spaces toolkit is a practical resource that emphasizes that advocacy is possible even in highly restrictive contexts. (Freedom House, 2020).
Policy Recommendations: Freedom on the Net 2020
This report examines "how to foster a reliable and diverse information space, protect human rights from intrusive surveillance, and promote internet freedom" (Freedom House, 2020).
The Internationalization of Universities and the Repression of Academic Freedom
This report examines how "lucrative partnerships, foreign access, and expatriate academic networks create many opportunities – including a chance for authoritarian states to assert their influence across borders" (Furstenberg et al, 2020).
The Importance of Defending Diaspora Activism for Democracy and Human Rights
This report examines how "diaspora activism can be impactful. But transnational repression can deter, silence, and punish those who engage in the fight for rights from afar" (Moss 2020).
At Home and Abroad: Coercion-by-Proxy as a Tool of Transnational Repression
This report examines how "exile often means leaving loved ones and colleagues behind, sometimes at the mercy of governments who target them to gain leverage" (Adamson and Tsourapas, 2020).
The Digital Transnational Repression Toolkit, and Its Silencing Effects
This report examines how "digital tools make it easier than ever for authoritarian governments to control, silence, and punish dissent across borders" (Michaelsen, 2020).
Democracy faces bigger threats than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping
“Democracy’s retreat is a favoured narrative of our times. You can see why. Wherever one looks, self-styled “strongman” leaders are scorning liberal values. The forward march of democracy of the early post-cold war era has become a retreat” (Philip Stephens, 2020).
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