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Electoral processes and democracy: a moving field
WEBDesign, timing, sequencing. A challenge for peace-builders and democracy-builders alike is to facilitate choices in the design, timing and sequencing, implementation and assessment of electoral ...
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ...
WEBAug 16, 2021 · The set of conspiracy theories around the Great Reset are nebulous and hard to pin down, but piecing them together gives us something like this: the Great Reset is the global elite’s plan to ...
What is tolerance and how much of it do democracies require?
WEBOct 4, 2019 · Indeed, tolerance is often invoked as something to which individuals and societies should aspire. According to former Director-General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay, “Tolerance is an act of humanity ...
The case for five new states | openDemocracy
WEBMay 5, 2021 · One of the most transformative things Democrats could do with their narrow majority in Congress would be to grant statehood to all the remaining inhabited US territories. That would make five new ...
Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy
WEB3. In an electoral democracy, protest provides an essential voice for minority groups. The classic theorists of representational government recognised that universal suffrage and majority voting ...
Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
WEBAug 27, 2019 · In the late 1970s, the Czechoslovak critic of communism, Vaclav Havel, helped to develop another key piece of terminology, ‘post-totalitarianism’, to describe the contradictory world of ...
Democracy for all? Minority rights and democratisation
WEBFeb 10, 2012 · Minority rights and democratisation. The challenge of accommodating and promoting the rights of ethnic, religious and other minorities tends to emerge whenever a formerly authoritarian country ...
'They left us starving': How the fashion industry abandoned its …
WEBJan 18, 2021 · In 2019 the fashion industry generated $2.5trn in global revenues, making it one of the largest industries in the world. But when COVID-19 struck in 2020, it virtually collapsed. Exports of raw ...
Does digital democracy improve democracy? | openDemocracy
WEBMar 2, 2017 · Interestingly enough, digital innovations have been making representation less virtual by virtual means. These new digital institutional designs mentioned above not only enhance participation ...
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