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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)
Disinformation, ‘Fake News’ And Influence Campaigns On Twitter
"This study is one of the largest analyses to date on how fake news spread on twitter both during and after the 2016 election campaign" (Knight Foundation, 2018).
Outperformers: High-growth emerging economies and the companies that propel them
Some emerging economies have grown much faster and more consistently than others. Underlying these success stories is a pro-growth policy agenda and the standout role of large companies.
Best Practice in Community of Democracies’ member states engagement with, and protection of, civil society
This report defines “the key concept of this report – civil society – and proceeds with a discussion of civil society’s role in a democratic society, reviewing the functions of civil society in a democracy” and concludes with... recommendations on what states can do” (Communities of Democracy, 2018).
What if democracy was RAPID?
This article aims to “provide a framework...that could make clearer how different modes of participatory democracy could hang together as a whole that’s more than the sum of the parts of open policymaking, deliberative democracy, representative democracy, and so on” (Alexander 2018).
Against Identity Politics
Fukuyama explores how “identity politics has become a master concept that explains much of what is going on in global affairs” and how “all over the world, political leaders have mobilized followers around the idea that their dignity has been affronted and must be restored” (Fukuyama, 2018).
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