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Introducing the Democracy Lighthouse Speakers’ Corner
Our Democracy Speakers’ Corner is an exciting new Democracy Lighthouse initiative. It’s a space designed to encourage dialogue, disagreement and informed reflection and commentary about democracy and its future. Democracy Speakers’ Corner aims to bring together activists, scholars, policymakers, and citizen voices to share different experiences and competing views about the serious challenges and openings…
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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #15
Democracy Needs Your Voice! We’re launching out Democracy Lighthouse Speakers’ Corner today – and we’d love for you to be part of it.
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Modi Chooses Violence. Again.
Not too long ago, Narendra Modi’s party and supporters took great delight in gramophoning dubious ‘surveys’ declaring the Indian prime minister as the most popular leader among democracies, with supposedly 70 percent approval ratings. Fortress Delhi in recent days, however, betrays a nervous king hiding from his own people rather than an elected leader enjoying…
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After Democratic Erosion: Institutional Resilience and Democratic Distortion in Brazil
This paper discusses Brazilian democracy which survived Bolsonaro, but did not return to its previous equilibrium. Breakdown was avoided through a combination of contingency and institutional resistance: a permissive fiscal moment that ultimately proved insufficient, an international signal that a government born of a coup would not be recognized, and, decisively, a judicial-electoral response concentrated…
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Washington’s Test Threatens the Next UN Secretary-General’s Independence
Image: GrAI / Shutterstock The United States is reported to oppose every candidate now standing for Secretary-General of the United Nations. If the report is accurate, the danger extends beyond a delayed appointment. Making agreement with Washington’s political priorities a condition of selection would threaten the independence on which the office’s authority depends. According to…
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