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Ιndicators of News Media Trust
News media “has suffered from a decline in public confidence... A key question... is whether that trust is lost for good….Gallup asked a representative sample of U.S. adults to discuss key factors that make them trust, or not trust, news media organizations” (American Academy of Art & Sciences, 2020).
Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains
"Applying MGI’s micro-to-macro methodology, this report considers the issues and investment choices facing individual companies as well as the implications for global value chains, trade, and national economies. . It builds on a large multiyear body of MGI research on topics such as global value chains and flows, manufacturing, digitization, and climate risk" (McKinsey & Company, 2020).
American Views 2020: Trust, Media And Democracy
"At a time when factual, trustworthy information is especially critical to public health and the future of our democracy, the striking trends documented here are cause for concern. American Views offers new insights into how the public is responding to these challenges in their own media consumption and their thoughts about how to address them" (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).
"The Whole of Liberal Democracy is In Grave Danger..."
“In other words, there is one more item to add to the constantly growing list of factors driving polarization in America: Those on the left and right appear to use substantially different cognitive processes to interpret events in the world around them, large and small” (Thomas B. Edsall, 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).
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).
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).
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