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Crisis In Democracy: Renewing Trust In America
This is the Knight Commission's report on Trust, Media and Democracy from 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).
Testing the resilience of Europe’s inclusive growth mode
The combination of six global megatrends is increasing the stress on Europe’s inclusive growth and the EU social contract.
100 Ideas for a Freer, Fairer World from 100 Sparks of Hope
These Sparks of Hope are grassroots organisations that embody the change The Elders want to see in the world. Each one tells an inspirational story of how incredible people across the globe are working for peace, health, justice and equality.
Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit
“This report is the first component of a three-part toolkit... informed by CPD, NILC, and Vera’s experiences advancing the universal representation movement. These experiences have been guided by the expertise of advocates, organizers, legal service providers, and policymakers... who have led publicly funded deportation defense efforts” (Berberich et al., 2018).
Whistleblowers for Change: The Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Leaking and Whistleblowing
"In this report, whistleblowers from eight European countries describe what they experienced after they took a stand. Additionally, civil society experts weigh in on how the EU can craft policies to better protect whistleblowers. The question of how to define whistleblowing…is also explored" (Open Society Foundation, 2018).
Global Democracy for Europeans: A Demographic Story
"Insofar as democracy is a product of long-term diffusion, scholars generally focus on colonialism (especially English) or religion (especially Protestant). Here, we focus on a third pathway from Europe – Europeans. We show that there is a persistent relationship between the share of Europeans in a society and its regime type" (Gerring and Apfeld, 2018).
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