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The Internet's Challenge to Democracy: Framing the Problem and Assessing Reforms
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 disinformation, hate speech, incitement, and foreign interference in elections” and face economic challenges” (Persily, 2019).
When Democracy has a Fever: States of Emergency as a Symptom and Accelerator of Autocratization
"States of emergency grant chief executives the power to bypass democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats... States of emergency should be associated with a heightened risk of autocratization... This paper tests this relationship using data on sixty democracies for 1974 to 2016" (Lührman and Rooney, 2019).
Is There a Populist Wave in Europe?
“In this commentary, Benjamin Martill and José Feio examine the rise of populist parties in Europe, and question the extent to which the recent success of populist parties is a singular phenomenon, or whether it is a result of parallel evolution” (Martill and Feio, 2019).
People, Profits and Peace
This report encourages “the private sector to...pursue an agenda which builds on but also goes beyond human rights due diligence” and “calls on policymakers and civil society to work with business in novel ways to complement existing dialogues on business and human rights” (Martin, Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Lisa ten Brinke, 2019).
A Fatal Attraction?
This paper examined the 50th Session of the UN Statistical Commission and the theme of “the often tense interface between data and policy-making and the asymmetrical power dynamics that shape it” (Adams and Judd, 2019).
The case for a UN Parliamentary Assembly and the Inter-Parliamentary Union
This paper looks into the relationship between the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the proposed United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA). It outlines their characteristics and provides an assessment of similarities and differences with special consideration of the IPU’s collaboration with the UN and its capacity to address the UN’s democratic deficit. (Bummel, 2019).
Globalization in transition: The future of trade and value chains
"Global value chains are being reshaped by rising demand and new industry capabilities in the developing world as well as a wave of new technologies" (Lund et. al., 2019).
What you get for your dollar
“This briefing paper provides an overview of the approach underlying EA” and “concludes that policy makers...must instead concentrate on understanding the confounding structural causes of interdependent global challenges and aim at their long-term solution, within an overarching human rights framework” (Seitz 2019).
Investing in Canadians' Civic Literacy
This report: Clarifies what civic literacy is and does, makes the case for why action on civic literacy is so important explains how difficult it is to measure civic literacy and how levels of civic literacy are not evenly distributed across the population, presents some of the challenges to teaching civic literacy and how unevenly it is taught outside of school and discusses how to proceed, and the need for greater investment from government.
The Future of Work Guide
“This guide seeks to build a bridge from the voluminous future of work research to the core ingredients of future of work policy that will need to be weighed over the coming years. Through our cross-country comparison... we highlight core factors and key takeaways” (Atkinson and Brown, 2019).
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