The authors here “conducted a study with citizen activists who lobby the US Congress for a carbon pricing policy to address climate change” to see “how activists think about four social psychological…
Han explores how to “strengthen the capacity of people to exercise their voices in the democratic process—and instantiate the authority they have to hold economic and political leaders accountable…
“This report investigates how digital public policy implicates civil society in democracies and how to strengthen, expand and diversify the practical connections between civil society support…
This paper examines how “concern that the most democratic features of the internet are, in fact, endangering democracy itself” wherein “democracies pay a price for internet freedom...in the form of…
This piece examines the contemporary influence of authoritarian leaders and demagogues and how "strongmen" take power at times of anxiety and vulnerability.
Fukuyama explores how “identity politics has become a master concept that explains much of what is going on in global affairs” and how “all over the world, political leaders have mobilized followers…
Levitsky and Ziblatt explore contemporary democratic backsliding and how it differs from the democratic fracturing of the past and takes place at the ballot box, through the co-optation of the media,…
“This article analyzes the position of the” European Court of Human Rights concerning the “unprecedented wave of populism in Europe” and “argues that the rise of populism not only intensifies the…
This report examines how sanctions can violate human rights, particularly when states employ little transparency, and develops recommendations to prevent against human rights abuses committed through…
This paper “is a road map for how countries can get ahead of foreign disinformation” and analyzes how “a structure for democratic defense against disinformation is emerging, consistent with the…
