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International Journal of Human Rights: Special Issue on human rights and economic policy reform
This volume “brings together experts working on human rights and economic policy from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, law, and development studies” (International Journal of Human Rights, 2020).
Digital News Report2020 (Thomson Reuters)
The report looks at the impact of coronavirus on news consumption and on the economic prospects for publishers. It looks at progress on new paid online business models, trust and misinformation, partisanship and populism, and the popularity of curated editorial products like podcasts and email newsletters.
The Business Case for Democracy
This paper “presents a business case for democracy, focusing on the impact of democracy on economic growth... It discusses four factors pertaining to data quality and modelling choices, suggesting that several previous studies have underestimated the growth-benefits of democracy… and the relationship between democracy and economic crises and variation in economic performance" (Henrik Knutsen, 2020).
Africa: Year in Review 2020
"This year’s Africa: Year in Review 2020 is a special edition, marking the fifth year since the launch of the series. The Wilson Center Africa Program continued its annual tradition of asking policymakers, scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders to examine the top developments in Africa and in U.S.-Africa relations for 2020" (Boswell et. al., 2020).
Youth and Satisfaction with Democracy
The report “finds that “younger generations have become steadily more dissatisfied with democracy – not only in absolute terms, but also relative to older cohorts at comparable stages of life” and that “countries that have elected populist leaders have seen a recovery in youth satisfaction with democracy.” (Foa, 2020)
Digital Minilateralism: How Governments Cooperate on Digital Governance
The authors find that “leaders should consider engaging digital minilateralism as a method of international cooperation” that can shape “how individual governments learn, adopt, and govern the use of new and emerging technologies, and how they create common or aligned policy.” (Dr. Tanya Filer and Dr. Antonio Weiss, 2020).
Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
This briefing paper looks at the financing for development (FfD) work at the United Nations in 2020, an exceptional year due to the outbreak of the global coronavirus crisis in the spring.
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.
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.
Kettering Review Fall 2020
"For much of the 20th century, politics was the province of elected leaders and expertise, aiming to fix problems without the public’s messy input. But what if the relationship between elected officials and constituents were recast as one of partners or coproducers?" (Felts et. al., 2020).
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