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The World After Coronavirus
"Humankind is now facing a global crisis. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come… When choosing between alternatives, we should ask ourselves not only how to overcome the immediate threat, but also what kind of world we will inhabit once the storm passes." (Harari, 2020)
Protecting Ethnic Minorities Within Minorities
This Constitution Brief surveys comparative constitutional practice for different mechanisms and approaches relating to the minorities within minorities challenge. In other words, this brief refers to the protection of minorities within constituent units/states/regions and doesn’t cover the protection of minorities in general. (Bisarya, 2020).
Mapping The Civic Data Universe: Ten Ways To Improve Access To Government Information Through Expanded Interstellar Connections
"This report represents the second and final installment in a study commissioned by the Knight Foundation to identify barriers for journalists and citizens in accessing government information, and to seek potential solutions" (David Cullier, 2020).
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Fuels Trump’s Autocratic Instincts
"Trump apparently read from a teleprompter on Wednesday night. After weeks of dismissing the threat of a pandemic and of continuing to obsess about his own personal grievances, he finally sounded grave… precisely because Trump was not at his worst… in the extraordinary situation of a pandemic, what we are witnessing is peak Trump." (Gessen, 2020)
Coronavirus Tests Europe’s Cohesion, Alliances and Even Democracy
“With the rapid spread of the virus, Brussels is fumbling, nations are diverging, populists are salivating and the U.S. is erecting barriers against allies” (Steven Erlanger, 2020).
Migration and Mobility After the 2020 Pandemic: The End of an Age?
“This paper sets an agenda for research on the future of human migration and mobility after the 2020 Pandemic” by examining ten questions related to migration and the impact of the pandemic on mobility (Gamlen, 2020).
The Future of Democracy in Europe
This report argues that “the crisis of liberal democracy cannot be blamed on the development and prevalence of digital technology...rather, the crisis has deeper causes about which there is little consensus, with views dependent on normative assumptions about democracy that are ultimately political” (Kundani, 2020).
Democracy Report 2020. Autocratization Surges – Resistance Grows
"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) produces the largest global dataset on democracy with some 28 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2019." This report details the state of democracy in 2019 and presents data for democratically advancing and declining states around the world and global challenges.
Inequality and Support for Democracy: a Micro Perspective
This piece demonstrates how “perceived equality significantly increases support for democracy as a regime type, while feelings of being more unlike others significantly reduces support for democracy” (Isbell, 2020) and explores what drives democracy or endangers it in relation to inequality.
Social Media Monitoring
The extent to which DHS exploits social media information is buried in jargon-filled notices about changes to document storage systems that impart only the vaguest outlines of the underlying activities. To fill this gap, this report seeks to map out the department’s collection, use, and sharing of social media information by piecing together press reports..., and other publicly available documents. (German, 2020)
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