Accounting for democratic resilience
The National Resilience Index 2020 measures how capable each of the D-10 club of democracies is in facing crises like pandemics or terrorist attacks. Our findings – made using a… Read more »
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Wake-Up Call: Why COVID exposed West’s weakness – and how to fix it
The covid-19 pandemic “is a wake-up call…not just as a public-health disaster, but a stress test of Western government,” John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge contend in The Wake-Up Call:… Read more »
Populism and elitism’s ‘corrosive effect on democratic life’
In 1911, Robert Michels (1876-1936), an Italian political sociologist, published “Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy,” postulating the “iron law of oligarchy.” Michels, who… Read more »
Mali: Beware the ‘popular’ coup
ECOWAS to Send Team to Mali As Opposition Plans Rally https://t.co/iee2tIDHhi via @allafrica — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 31, 2020 Thousands of cheering Malians came out onto the streets… Read more »
Combating malign influence through ‘societal resilience’
Battles of Influence: Deliberate Disinformation and Global Health Security https://t.co/MZDgt21A2A — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 24, 2020 In the twenty-first century, it is truer than ever that competitions and… Read more »
How social media helps to undermine democracy
Democracies have long claimed to have several advantages over authoritarian regimes – such as sound governance and effectiveness in wartime – based on the open marketplace of ideas and freedom… Read more »
China’s CCP – ‘political zombie’ or leading in global strategic competition?
The effect of the new national-security law that China imposed on Hong Kong is extending far beyond the territory to American college campuses https://t.co/eydYcm97M3 via @WSJ — Democracy Digest… Read more »
‘Pandemic Populism’ may increase threat to democracy
Read this from @institutegc https://t.co/4PiTp0aDri — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 17, 2020 While Covid-19 may hurt the populists who have downplayed it, it is unlikely to kill populism, according… Read more »
How to ensure post-Covid democratic resilience
There are five main challenges for democracies after coronavirus, analysts Célia Belin and Giovanna De Maio write in a new Brookings analysis: protecting the safety and integrity of elections, finding the right… Read more »
Will global summit of democracies promote renewal?
The Decline of the West—New and Improved https://t.co/RTXuiZkJsI via @aminterest — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 17, 2020 While National Endowment for Democracy board member Nadia Schadlow recently echoed calls… Read more »