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Finding the ‘Common Good’ in a Pandemic
“Every one of the unprecedented, vastly consequential, health and economic measures that state, local and federal officials have taken up to now...reflects an unarticulated ethical position about...how do we maximize the common good in the least heartless way” (Thomas L. Friedman, 2020).
What the Great Plague of Athens Can Teach Us Now
"Disease changed the course of the war, and shaped the peace that came afterward, planting the seeds that would destroy Athenian democracy… If the social and moral fiber of a society are already being tested, the widespread fear of death at the hands of an invisible killer makes everything exponentially worse." (Kelaidis, 2020)
Migration and Mobility After the 2020 Pandemic: The End of an Age?
“This paper sets an agenda for research on the future of human migration and mobility after the 2020 Pandemic” by examining ten questions related to migration and the impact of the pandemic on mobility (Gamlen, 2020).
Fixing Democracy Demands the Building and Aligning of People's Motivation and Authority to Act
Han explores how to “strengthen the capacity of people to exercise their voices in the democratic process—and instantiate the authority they have to hold economic and political leaders accountable within institutions” in order to address underlying democratic issues and reform democracy (Han, 2020).
Why Protest?
The authors of this essay “describe the mass demonstrations that have taken place across the world” ...“and raise the question: are these protests a sign of democracy in action, or democracy in crisis?” (Chicago Center on Democracy, 2020). They address root causes of discontent and demonstrations, and examine case studies.
A Human and Constitutional Right to a Quality Public Education: Looking Ahead in the Struggle for the Rights of Teachers, Parents, and Students
The authors use the Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution as a lens through which they examine how to ensure quality education and labor protections as fundamental human rights, why ensuring those rights is necessary, and how these protections can bring change and justice to classrooms.
Annual Report 2019 Culture Foundation of Europe
This is the annual report of the European Cultural Foundation for 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).
Partisan Dealignment and the Personalization of Politics in West European Parliamentary Democracies, 1961-2016
This article examines the relationship between partisan dealignment and the “personalization of politics” and looks into the “claim that leader effects on voting behaviour are increasing across time” (Garzia, Ferreira da Silva, De Angelis, 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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