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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.
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.
Does Zuckerberg Understand How the Right to Free Speech Works?
“Far too often Mr. Zuckerberg has chosen to allow posts spewing bigotry and lies to remain on Facebook in the name of free speech. Now, a thorough and damning audit of the company, two years in the making and solicited by Facebook, confirms those fears” (Greg Bensinger, 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).
The Neoliberal Looting of America
“The current crisis has revealed that the health of the finance industry and stock market is completely disconnected from the actual financial health of the American people. As inequality, unemployment and evictions climb, the Dow Jones surges right alongside them — one line compounding suffering, the other compounding returns for investors” (Mehrsa Baradaran, 2020).
We Socialize Bailouts. We Should Socialize Successes, Too.
“Governments have spent trillions on stimulus packages without creating structures — like a citizens’ dividend, which would reward public investment — that turn short-term remedies into the means for an inclusive, sustainable economy. This gets to the heart of what fuels inequality: We socialize risks but privatize rewards” (Mariana Mazzucato, 2020).
How China Scammed Hong Kong
“After many years of rejecting the people of Hong Kong’s persistent demands for genuine universal suffrage and other rights, China...chose the eve of July 1... to pass a draconian national security law that will forever harm Hong Kong’s political freedoms and hobble its economic relations with the rest of the world” (Yi-Zheng Lian, 2020).
What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common
“Facebook’s core business is to get as many people as possible to spend as many hours as possible on its site, so that it can sell those people’s attention to advertisers...this notion of core business explains a lot—including why it’s so hard to make rapid gains in the fight against climate change” (Bill McKibben, 2020).
Facebook Can't Be Reformed
“What is most dangerous about W.K.W.H.M.W.T.D. is that it glosses over the fundamental structural flaws in the platform. The architecture of the social network...will always produce more objectionable content at a dizzying scale” (Charlie Warzel, 2020).
Community Mobilisation: Unlocking the Potential of Community Power
"This report offers a how-to guide for organisations interested in the process of building communities into cohesive wholes, with clear objectives and clear plans...illustrating a range of potential strategies...to build active, networked and powerful communities" (Tiratelli 2020).
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