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Read the latest on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other critical world events in our library of democratic content. Gathered from trusted international sources, the curated library brings you a rich resource of articles, opinion pieces and more on democracy and culture to keep you updated.
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Supporting Media for Democracy
“This publication presents EED’s work in the area of independent media, and reflects on lessons learned in six years of media and democracy support” and analyzes “worrying trends and challenges faced by media today and calls for an urgent re-set in thinking about donor support to media” (Pomianowski, 2019).
Digital Election Interference
This report examines a "Freedom on the Net 2019 Key Finding" that "politicians and hyperpartisans use digital means to manipulate elections" (Shahbaz and Funk, 2019).
Performance and Policy-Based Budgeting: How to Spot the Fakes
"Andrew Laing, ISE’s Public Economics Practice Manager, analyzes the key components of performance and policy-based budgeting and how practitioners can test budget systems to spot the often fine lines between best practice and poor performance" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2019).
Justice Policy Series, Part I: Access to Justice
The aim of this report is to inspire countries to adopt policies and activities suggested here and adapt them for their own national and local context. Working closely with international and domestic partners, the OGP Support Unit will use this research to help OGP members continue to develop and implement strong justice commitments.
We the People: A Philanthropic Guide to Strengthening Democracy
Surveys show “declining confidence in democracy among Americans. While many factors contribute to this growing sense that democracy is weakening, there are practical and thoughtful efforts underway to reverse these sentiments”. This report “creates a framework for anyone looking to strengthen the democratic system” (Center for High Impact Philanthropy, 2019).
Rules of engagement between the UN and private actors
This report details potential “rules of engagement between the UN and private actors”, “Towards a regulatory and institutional framework” (Martens and Seitz, 2019).
A Human-Centric Digital Manifesto for Europe
"The digital revolution is radically changing every aspect of human life... The new European Commission should look beyond digital single market issues, and focus on creating new rights-based policies and regulations based on freedom, democracy, equality, and rule of law to ensure that existing offline rights are protected online" (Pachl and Valenti, 2019).
The Samara Centre's Field Guide to Online Political Conversations
This report brings together insights from the study of difficult conversations and the study of social media to examine what’s going wrong, why it matters, what government action we should expect, and how citizens can change the nature of online political conversations.
What Can Be Done About the Problem of Political Parties?
"In a world of declining political party influence, protest movements and organized labor have increasingly served as vehicles to express grievances and channel political action. However, the limits of protest movements and labor unions’ activities… point to the essential role that political parties play in holding governments to account" (Liddiard 2019).
Empowering EU against state capture through a new monitoring tool
"State capture...is a specific security risk for the EU" and "there is a lack of proper prevention and detection tools in place to curb corruption effectively in its many forms and across the different jurisdictions in the EU... As corrupt practices evolve, EU Member States need to respond by deepening their capacity to tackle new and more complex forms but also to better share existing knowledge" (Mideva and Todor Galev, 2019).
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