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Participatory Budgeting
"This research identified significant challenges in the participatory budgeting sphere... The migration to managing participatory budgeting digitally presents the very real risk of the process becoming gentrified, and is just one example of the consequences of scale in participatory budgeting only being achieved at the expense of disenfranchising the most under-represented" (Rumbul, Parsons, and Bramley, 2018).
Towards Elections with Integrity
"This policy brief… proposes… monitoring of the political processes leading up to polling day; improving collaboration with observers at a local level; strengthening the role played by civil society; setting stronger guidelines for the digital arena; developing guidelines for technology used; striking a new balance between the observation missions’ technical and political mandates" (Martinelli, 2018).
Political Participation of Refugees: Bridging the Gaps
This report focuses on eight host countries—Germany, Kenya, Lebanon, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda and the United Kingdom—and five countries of origin: Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and Syria. It offers comparative analysis on different mechanisms for formal and non-formal political participation.
Applying Behavioral Insights To Support Immigrant Integration And Social Cohesion
This report examines how “mentoring programmes and volunteering opportunities could also be used to encourage eligible immigrants to naturalise, and citizenship ceremonies could be made more meaningful by encouraging existing citizens to attend and connect with new citizens” (Benton, Silva, and Somerville, 2018).
What Comes Next? Lessons For The Recovery of Liberal Democracy
"In declining order of direct comparison" the authors "looked at cases of democratic decline and subsequent renewal" in several areas and "also looked at the similarities and differences between these states and countries that faced executive degradation and have not yet recovered, particularly Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and Venezuela" (Kleinfeld and Solimini, 2018).
Understanding the Voter Experience: The Public's View of Election Administration and Reform
This report provides insights into the state of public opinion about election administration and reform. The findings are primarily drawn from the 2008–2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), a survey conducted each federal election year since 2006.
A guide to spreading social enterprise
"This free guide will help social entrepreneurs better understand the complexities of setting up a social enterprise in eight ASEAN countries… It outlines governance and regulatory obligations and provides guidance on the taxes that apply to such organisations and expenses that are tax deductible. Case studies are also included" (Newman et al., 2018).
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
"What explains successful democratization? In this paper, we propose a solution that allows researchers more fully to capture the liberalization period and then classify these episodic events according to their outcome: successful, failed, or censored episodes of democratization" (Lindberg et al., 2018).
Rethinking Consensus vs. Majoritarian Democracy
"Arend Lijphart's distinction between two dimensions of consensus and majoritarian democracy has been an influential concept. However, several scholars have reported that the distinction does not travel well to other regions or historical periods. This paper argues, more generally, that Lijphart's dimensions can be replicated only when using Lijphart's own data" (Coppedge 2018).
The Role of Youth in Democratic Resilience
The report summarizes discussions from the Community of Democracies’ event on ”The Role of Youth in Democratic Resilience”, held at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2018 and outlines the main points discussed during the event including democratic values, youth engagement, and inclusion. (Community of Democracies, 2018)
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