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Raising Their Voices: How Effective are Pro-Youth Laws and Policies?
This report analyzes “the effect on youth engagement of four specific pro-youth legal and political mechanisms: national youth policy strategies, reducing minimum ages for voting and candidacy, youth quotas, and political party youth wings” (CEPPS 2019).
Raising their voices: How effective are pro-youth laws and policies?
"There is little research on whether pro-youth mechanisms actually improve youth engagement. This report begins to fill that gap by analyzing the effect on youth engagement of four specific pro-youth legal and political mechanisms: national youth policy strategies, reducing minimum ages for voting and candidacy, youth quotas, political party youth wings" (CEPPS, 2019).
Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape
This report demonstrates “deep polarization and growing tribalism” in the U.S. and both “shows that this polarization is rooted in something deeper than political opinions and disagreements” and “that 77 percent of Americans believe our differences are not so great that we cannot come together” (Yudkin et al., 2019).
Youth Leading Debate: Program and Instruction Manuals
"NDI developed the “Youth Leading Debate” program to provide young people with an opportunity to learn the art of competitive debate and develop practical political leadership skills. This manual aims to serve as a resource for developing youth debate programs and supporting young people..." (National Democratic Institute, 2019).
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).
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