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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).
Philanthrocapitalism in global health and nutrition: analysis and implications
“Large global foundations play an...active role in shaping the global development agenda and in setting the funding priorities for international institutions and national governments alike… This discussion paper is an executive summary of a forthcoming article by Nicoletta Dentico (Health Innovation in Practice) and Karolin Seitz (Global Policy Forum).” (Dentico and Seitz, 2018).
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
This report summarizes focuses “on cross-cutting policy reform areas that demonstrate the interlinkages between various SDGs, the need to ‘de-silo’ current policy approaches, and to promote policies that are genuinely coherent in the interest of sustainable development, human rights and gender justice” (Civil Society Reflection Group, 2018).
Annual Report 2018
"This is the 2018 Annual Report for Stichting Greenpeace Council. Stichting Greenpeace Council commonly works under its operational name, Greenpeace International" (Greenpeace 2018).
World Report 2018
"World Report 2018 summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events from late 2016 through November 2017" (Human Rights Watch, 2018).
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