• According to the classification of democracy used by Our World in Data only around half of the countries in the world are currently under democratic control. (blogspot.com)
  • Unfortunately in 2019 India became an electoral autocracy (according to the Our World in Data classifications) which resulted in 1.4 billion people immediately having their democratic rights curtailed. (blogspot.com)
  • The impact of the long-term democratic decline has become increasingly global in nature, broad enough to be felt by those living under the cruelest dictatorships, as well as by citizens of long-standing democracies. (freedomhouse.org)
  • This book covers all major aspects pertinent to democratic party systems including the origin of parties, electoral systems, cleavages, the way parties organize and how this all relates to democratic government. (e-elgar.com)
  • Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values. (booksamillion.com)
  • The question then is how have fringe interests- those of a tiny political and economic elite, been so successfully portrayed as democratic choice when they are anything but? (counterpunch.org)
  • In other words, the American system of political and economic representation neither includes nor represents true democratic participation. (counterpunch.org)
  • The most important book on organizing and grassroots democracy in a generation, Blessed Are the Organized is a passionate and hopeful account of how our endangered democratic principles can be put into action. (princeton.edu)
  • He gives us a kind of thick ethnographic description of grassroots, face-to-face democracy, seeking in the stories he hears and the events he witnesses to discern the governing principles and practices of a democratic counterculture that has developed largely under the radar of the media spectacles that pass for American public life. (princeton.edu)
  • The gap between democratic ideals and democratic realities, already large, will grow even greater if democracies all around the globe fail to rise to these challenges. (inderscience.com)
  • This thought-provoking project has generated a lively discussion about the meaning of democracy and the aim of democratic theory. (medium.com)
  • On the one hand, I am sympathetic with the idea of broadening our democratic imaginaries by looking at the many articulations of democracy. (medium.com)
  • Therefore, we must look more closely at how these components sustain a democratic system and relate to its normative underpinnings. (medium.com)
  • Echoing Simone Chambers , today's environmental, political, economic, and health crises force us to address the 'why' rather than the 'what', and require democratic theory to be more innovative and engaged. (medium.com)
  • In particular, it will focus on themes such as models of democracy, welfare state politics, differences among political institutions, political parties and interest groups in contemporary democratic regimes. (unibocconi.it)
  • Ideally, a coalition of technologically advanced, democratic nations and businesses could create an alternative open, transparent 5G operation system for the world that will shut out China's closed model. (the-american-interest.com)
  • How might it facilitate human flourishing, advance social progress and strengthen democratic political engagement, rather than stifling or undermining these aims? (jonathangray.org)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • Its programmes aim to provide knowledge to democracy builders, policy development and analysis and support democratic reform. (lu.se)
  • The center sponsors research and education aimed at improving the democratic process in the United States and expanding democracy around the world. (lu.se)
  • fostering a democratic system of governance, which serves its citizens, protects human rights and freedoms, and is free from corruption and red tape. (who.int)
  • Micro-targeted political advertisements and 'fake news' in social media platforms can distort democratic deliberation and everyday talk. (lu.se)
  • To describe the basic cyberconflict of our time as "Democracies vs. Dictatorships" would be an oversimplification. (circleid.com)
  • The benefit of this data set is that diplomatic and scientific experts have the best working knowledge about political and administrative realities of their home country," Victor said. (eurasiareview.com)
  • New practices and arrangements will continue to emerge and challenge more established ones as democracies adapt to new realities. (medium.com)
  • South Africa's pursuit of universal health coverage through a National Health Insurance is the latest in a nearly 100-year history of health system reform efforts shaped by social and political realities. (bvsalud.org)
  • They have no plan to save democracy, cannot define it, and have no interest in conveying how much power has been taken away from American citizens over the years. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The course consists of five sub-courses: Political Theory, State Formation, Citizens and Society, Public Administration, and International Politics. (uu.se)
  • Technology and transparency can be used to strengthen democracy by opening up government to citizens, but the same tools can also be used by the state to surveil and disempower citizens, thereby damaging democracy. (columbia.edu)
  • This article examines the political impact of the digital revolution using three case studies to illustrate the way digital technology and transparency combined to affect power relations between citizens and the state. (columbia.edu)
  • Even this work examines what happened only in those states where direct democracy was a matter of public controversy and so sidesteps the troublesome determination of whether citizens elsewhere would have wanted to debate it but, in the face of an elite consensus in opposition, were unable to place it on the political agenda (Hill and Klarner 2002 , pp. 1119-1121). (springer.com)
  • Voters, journalists, nonprofits, can use the free portal to "search where politicians get their money instead of the Secretary of State's antiquated system that really doesn't have the capacity citizens need," said Newman. (cafwd.org)
  • In liberal democracies, interest groups and political parties constitute the primary organizational carriers of citizens' preferences into the decision- making of the executive and legislative institutions. (lu.se)
  • The configuration of groups on these dimensions are compared with Chapel Hill Expert Survey data on parties, and information on the preferences of citizens from the European Election Studies. (lu.se)
  • This totalitarian system was hostile to capitalism and individual freedom. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Within the theories of self-determination that lie at the heart of democracy and capitalism the idea of a political 'center' is paradoxical. (counterpunch.org)
  • And there is no 100 percent democracy on one side and 100 percent Dictatorship on the other side. (circleid.com)
  • Whereas it can be impossible to discern any logic or strategy in former President Trump's actions, the fascists who marched on Rome in 1922 were relentlessly and violently focused on a clear goal: to destroy democracy and install a dictatorship. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Its 5G operating system is closed to competitors (like China's military dictatorship is closed to political opposition), and is a top-down architecture designed to provide a plug-and-play framework tailor-made for autocrats to surveil, propagandize, and control societies. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Discussions are underway, initiated by an anti-China push-back from the Quad nations-the United States, Japan, India, and Australia-to counteract China's drive toward data dictatorship. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Democracy and dictatorship revisited. (lu.se)
  • We develop individual, institutional and collaborative capacities to strengthen democracy. (ifes.org)
  • In January 2019, hearing voters' demands for bold structural reforms to strengthen democracy, the newly elected House freshman class joined forces with leaders in the House of Representatives to introduce H.R. 1-the most sweeping anti-corruption and pro-voter bill since the post-Watergate era in the 1970s. (americanprogress.org)
  • In order for technology and transparency to expand and strengthen democracy it matters who is made transparent and how technology is used. (columbia.edu)
  • Webb rigorously explores the different types of party systems that exist, the role of socio-political cleavages and electoral systems in shaping them, their evolution over time, and their significance for government and the wider functioning of democracy. (e-elgar.com)
  • Given the reported success of many Asian countries in rapid control of COVID-19, such as in China, Republic of Korea, Viet Nam and Singapore, there is the notion that some government characteristics and socio-political systems may have been more effective in implementing NPIs and controlling the pandemic than others (7). (who.int)
  • By using individual-level and country-level data, I examine if this variability in public opinion is partially caused by political party elites. (mdpi.com)
  • Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. (booksamillion.com)
  • An accompanying graph shows the number of people living in democracies during this same period.This graph show that throughout the 20th Century the number of people living in electoral and liberal democracies steadily grew larger and larger, until over half of the world's population were living in a democracy at the beginning of the 21st Century. (blogspot.com)
  • The emir is the head of state and the Al Sabah is the ruling family which dominates the country's political system. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, the country's political history has given rise to dominant ideas, values and ideologies that imbue health system reform with a particular social meaning. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Program is a research network of scholars interested in studies of electoral democracy, representative democracy, opinion formation, and voting behavior. (lu.se)
  • Two salient themes that are discussed during the course are gender and right-wing populism insofar as they matter for political parties and political behavior. (lu.se)
  • Voting Rules and Political Behavior. (lu.se)
  • If you ask an American what makes America so exceptional, there is a good chance you will hear the word democracy shortly after. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Moreover, the book asserts whether we speak of Turkey or South America ( Ergodan, Bolsonaro, etc.), every nation has its self-styled Trumpian-type dictator that is destroying democracy in the same way that Trump is that differs from the authoritarians of the past. (timesofisrael.com)
  • I agree that there is indeed a problem with democracy in America. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Closed Autocracy, Electoral Autocracy, Electoral Democracy and Liberal Democracy. (blogspot.com)
  • From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. (booksamillion.com)
  • The experiment demonstrates that harms to liberal democracy can be a reasonable way to judge technological risks. (researchgate.net)
  • These questionable uses may require NationBuilder to revise its 'Acceptable Usage Policy' and raises broader questions about the responsibilities of political technology firms to liberal democracy. (researchgate.net)
  • For example, polling data from three battleground states show that economic messaging that also incorporated democracy reforms scored between 7 percent and 15 percent better than traditional economic messaging. (americanprogress.org)
  • Even as the country"s political processes are deliberately segmenting the polity, economic growth and urbanisation also seem to be working in some instances towards the destruction of social cohesion. (org.in)
  • 2 The very palpable fear at the top of society as the war came to a close was that of a reversion to the pre-war situation in which domestic demand would be insufficient to absorb the enormous and growing potential economic surplus generated by the production system, thereby leading to a renewed condition of economic stagnation and depression. (monthlyreview.org)
  • We cannot go through another ten years like the ten years at the end of the twenties and the beginning of the thirties [i.e., the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression], without the most far-reaching consequences upon our economic and social system. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Stout tells vivid stories of people fighting entrenched economic and political interests around the country. (princeton.edu)
  • In the four-part series, which is airing on Fridays in September, we talk to economists, thinkers, and regular Americans about what happened to change our attitudes about our economic system. (vox.com)
  • Writing in the decade before the book's publication in 1776, Smith describes the emerging economic system he sees around him. (vox.com)
  • Gaventa 1980 ), but such research designs lack variation in both economic inequality and political participation and so remain only suggestive of the relationships between constrained agendas and these variables. (springer.com)
  • For an impressive demonstration of the relationship across states in the early twentieth century between the concentration of economic power and the consideration and disposition of the single issue of direct-democracy reforms, see Hill and Klarner ( 2002 ). (springer.com)
  • Recent reforms have focused on transforming defense science and technology (S&T) institutes into enterprise-like entities, but due to political and economic impediments, progress has been slow. (ciaonet.org)
  • The aim is to explain the determination of economic policy in modern democracies and to analyze how these policies may differ according to the different political institutions in place. (unibocconi.it)
  • We then address how these differences in economic policies may arise from political institutions, in particular electoral rules and regime types. (unibocconi.it)
  • [ 2 ] Such emerging forms of 'data work' can have huge social, political, economic, environmental and cultural consequences. (jonathangray.org)
  • What kinds of rules, policies, politics, mechanisms and mobilisations might be required to support the creation and use of data in the service of other kinds of social, political and economic objectives? (jonathangray.org)
  • Welcoming the report, she emphasized the value of well-functioning health-care systems for sustained economic and social development, improving quality of life and fostering world peace. (who.int)
  • The study aims to investigate how political factors such as government policies and economic development impact carbon emissions and subsequently affect the fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). (bvsalud.org)
  • It is followed by two thematic courses (each of 12 credits) that discuss central political and economic issues in East and South-East Asia. (lu.se)
  • In this article, we assess the extent to which European countries vary in the implementation of health policies in 10 different areas, and we exploit these variations to investigate the role of political, economic and social determinants of health policy. (bvsalud.org)
  • Educational standards, assessments, and accountability systems are of immense political moment around the world. (harvard.edu)
  • What are the effects on democracy and accountability of AI expert systems advising policy-makers? (lu.se)
  • The legal system must work towards accountability and justice for all. (lu.se)
  • This, along with its $1-trillion Belt and Road Initiative, is an existential threat to the economies and democracies of the world. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Health- care systems constituted the pillars of national economies. (who.int)
  • This study addresses the civil society participation in the users' representation of the Unified Health System (SUS) in the Municipal Health Council (CMS) in Piracicaba, São Paulo. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the data interpretation analysis, we highlighted the civil society participation limits in a Participatory Institution (CMS), which allowed us to question the Participative Democracy in the Brazilian. (bvsalud.org)
  • In exploratory regression analyses, we related these indicators to six background factors: national income, survival/self-expression values, democracy, government effectiveness, left-party participation in government and ethnic fractionalization. (bvsalud.org)
  • The study made use of the data sourced from the World Development Indicators (WDI) and World Governance Indications (WGI) covering 45 SSA countries for the period 2000 -2021. (bvsalud.org)
  • Technology, information and data positively serve elections and democracy. (ifes.org)
  • The results of the 2016 and 2018 elections were clear guideposts signaling the importance that Americans place on cleaning up the political system and making our government work for all people. (americanprogress.org)
  • Although not measured simultaneously with these elections, which were held in November of the preceding and following years, the available data on household income inequality provide excellent information about the context in which the elections were held because inequality changed only slowly year-to-year. (springer.com)
  • ParlGov contains data on elections and governments for all EU and most OECD members for the entire post-war period. (lu.se)
  • In my Internet Governance Outlook 2014 , I compared the Internet Governance Eco-System with the rainforest. (circleid.com)
  • But the depth of public support is limited: A median of only 37% across the 12 nations polled describe representative democracy as a very good form of governance. (pewresearch.org)
  • Political transitions and pressures - including the introduction of apartheid in 1948, anti-apartheid opposition, the transition to democracy, and corruption and governance failures - have alternately created political imperatives for reform, and constrained reform efforts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cases per million population and the mean estimated doubling time for cases was compared between Muslim-majority countries on the basis of governance systems, rapidity of institution of mitigation strategies and conflict groups. (who.int)
  • In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. (booksamillion.com)
  • The data includes items such as global employment/unemployment, continuing inequality, falling wage shares, and other factors driving the rising middle class. (msu.edu)
  • Reflection on the broader societal implications of datafication has been fuelled by reports of mega-leaks, mass privacy scares, state-sponsored hacks, algorithmic inequality, ubiquitous automation, experimental human-computer interfaces, the silicon super-rich, the gold-dust of data, and the digital mediatisation of everyday life. (jonathangray.org)
  • With trust in government near all-time lows , Americans want anti-corruption and clean election reforms that will make democracy more accountable to everyday people instead of wealthy special interests and corporations. (americanprogress.org)
  • Political Data Yearbook captures election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms for a range of countries, within and beyond the EU. (lu.se)
  • The European Journal of Political Research (EJPR) Political Data Yearbook documents election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms. (lu.se)
  • BACKGROUND: Spurred by the WHO's endorsement of universal health coverage as a goal of all health systems, many countries are undertaking health financing reforms. (bvsalud.org)
  • The nature of these reforms, and the policy processes by which they are achieved, will depend on context-specific factors, including the history of reform efforts and the political imperatives driving reforms. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSION: Ultimately, this analysis demonstrates the context-specific nature of health system reform processes and the influence of history on what sorts of reforms are politically feasible and socially acceptable, even in the context of a global push for universal health coverage. (bvsalud.org)
  • The intention is to give the students an introduction to different research fields of political science and to present some of the research methods used. (uu.se)
  • IJED provides a vehicle to help policy makers, academics, researchers, and professionals working in the field of political management, public administration, political science, and information technology to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work. (inderscience.com)
  • IJED publishes original research papers and case studies from such fields as information systems, political science, systems theory, communication theory. (inderscience.com)
  • This global experience has (re)shaped political and public demands on science and technology and the ways in which we incorporate scientific findings in our everyday lives. (researchgate.net)
  • The methods of science can be used not only to advance civilization but also to uphold the ideals of freedom and democracy. (shortform.com)
  • While political science research has put extensive efforts into understanding both channels of representation, their combined effect for citizen representation has only recently come into focus. (lu.se)
  • By the end of year 1, you will have the option to extend your stay in Lund by one year and in that time complete a one-year master's in Political Science. (lu.se)
  • Your first semester in Lund will focus on deepening your knowledge in Political Science by offering you specialised courses in comparative politics and an introduction to Swedish Politics. (lu.se)
  • Parallel to this, you will get a chance to explore Political Science Methodology and within the scope of the course start planning for your Bachelor thesis. (lu.se)
  • If you choose to extend your studies at Lund University you will have the opportunity to complete a one year Master's in Political Science. (lu.se)
  • The intention is to highlight the possibilities offered by data science to those preoccupied with understanding the social world. (lu.se)
  • State Capacity Redux: Integrating Classical and Experimental Contributions to an Enduring Debate", Annual Review of Political Science 21, xx-yy. (lu.se)
  • American Political Science Review 93, s. 609-624 (15 s. (lu.se)
  • American Journal of Political Science 51(1), 92-107. (lu.se)
  • Annual Review of Political Science 2 (1), s. 537-565. (lu.se)
  • You Get", Annual Review of Political Science 12: 135-161. (lu.se)
  • American Political Science Review 99(3): 347-360. (lu.se)
  • This is based on the Regimes of the World (RoW) classification system developed by political scientists Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg, and Staffan Lindberg. (blogspot.com)
  • The ability to choose political leaders who ostensibly act in our best interest and vote them out of office when they do not sets us apart from authoritarian regimes. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Reliable, verifiable data about religious beliefs and practices in the region's then-communist regimes is difficult, if not impossible, to find. (pewresearch.org)
  • Political regimes: Presidential-Congressional and Parliamentary regimes. (unibocconi.it)
  • How should responsible polities handle the fact that authoritarian regimes develop AI systems that could harm people worldwide? (lu.se)
  • Our analysis indicates wide diversity in the COVID-19 response across Muslim majority countries with clear indication that functional democracies were able to contain the epidemic significantly better than nondemocratic regimes. (who.int)
  • In term 1 and term 2, students work on their own individual research proposal on the topic 'what, why democracy' in which they develop an interesting and relevant research question, describe the relevant theories, concepts and measurements, compare countries, and collect and analyse empirical data. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Above all, it is based on relevant empirical data. (e-elgar.com)
  • The world system is riddled with crisis. (countercurrents.org)
  • An NPR/Ipsos poll from January 2022 asserted that 64% of Americans believe U. S democracy is "in crisis and at the risk of failing. (timesofisrael.com)
  • After the crisis of the 1970s, a third added surplus-absorption mechanism, financialization, emerged, propping up the underlying system of accumulation as the stimulus provided by the sales effort and militarism waned. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Is the coronavirus a vulnerability for democracies, as leaders marshal all the power at their disposal to address the crisis? (csmonitor.com)
  • Students will compare political developments in different countries around the world, and apply their theoretical knowledge of comparative politics by working on both academic research projects and film projects. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Struggle As in most societies and lands, the people in Bangladesh also unceasingly confronted dominant powers - its ruling system, economy, politics, ideology and organization. (countercurrents.org)
  • When registered Independent voters are combined with eligible non-voters the majority view is that this system is a hindrance to and / or irrelevant to political representation. (counterpunch.org)
  • These processes of 'datafication' - or ways of seeing and engaging with the world by means of digital data - are not just limited to the neutral representation of phenomena: data can also actively participate in the shaping of the world around us. (jonathangray.org)
  • It provides a detailed assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of different electoral systems including first-past-the-post, proportional representation and the single transferable vote and looks ate the experiences of Australia, New Zealand and France. (blogspot.com)
  • Our findings indicate that interest groups have the potential to supplement multidimensional gaps in representation between the political party system and citizen preferences. (lu.se)
  • The purpose of the Commission was to analyse the existing British first-past-the-post system and consider alternatives. (blogspot.com)
  • Webb identifies the major areas of study of parties and party systems and explains the major debates scholars have about each of them. (e-elgar.com)
  • Bartlett explains that by upholding six key pillars of democracy, we can save it before it is too late. (penguin.co.uk)
  • This book offers a clear and concise introduction to the contexts and implications of political party interactions in contemporary democracies. (e-elgar.com)
  • On the other hand, the mainstream media argue that one year after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Americans are deeply pessimistic about the future of democracy. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Blessed Are the Organized should be required reading for anyone who cares about the future of democracy in the United States, and anyone who cares about the making of politics. (princeton.edu)
  • interactive map shows that even in countries where people enjoy the right to vote the age of their democracy is still relatively young. (blogspot.com)
  • Waves of false and misleading information, generated deliberately by political leaders in some cases, flooded many countries' communication systems, obscuring reliable data and jeopardizing lives. (freedomhouse.org)
  • 2,460 fields of data are offered, which can be accessed across specified years and countries. (msu.edu)
  • Data is available for over 100 countries and more than 100,000 companies. (msu.edu)
  • The site also provides statistical data specific to trade between the United States and individual African countries, as well as requirements the countries need to achieve to qualify and remain eligible for AGOA. (msu.edu)
  • What's needed next is better systems for checking to see whether countries are actually delivering what they promise. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The authors find China and other non-democracies are expected to comply with their pledges not simply because many of them have less ambitious pledges, but because they also have administrative and political systems that make it easier to implement complex national policies needed to align their countries with international commitments. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Although on average it is considered important in all countries to live in a democracy, this aspiration is least present in Russia (7.3 on a scale of 1-10). (lse.ac.uk)
  • It needed to be sustained by integrated referral systems and regarded as a policy direction for all countries. (who.int)
  • although there are similarities because the countries belong to the same geographic region, differences can be seen in Primary Health Care, especially regarding to the health systems' structure financing and in some areas such as care management and nurses' role. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, the concept of e-democracy (also known as digital democracy or internet democracy) is clearly wider than this and IJED also explores issues such as the role of social media, identity theft, forgery/hacking, intellectual property, surveillance and challenges to regulatory power. (inderscience.com)
  • Its efforts also featured increased meddling in the domestic political discourse of foreign democracies, transnational extensions of rights abuses common in mainland China, and the demolition of Hong Kong's liberties and legal autonomy. (freedomhouse.org)
  • But with one stroke of a pen, Governor Jerry Brown can help bring California's campaign finance and lobbying database into the 21st century, fostering greater transparency and voter confidence in the electoral system. (cafwd.org)
  • Electoral Reform Initiatives in Canadian Provinces (Library of Parliament): There is growing concern in many circles that Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system produces lopsided and unrepresentative results. (blogspot.com)
  • Its website contains analysis of what is wrong with the current Canadian electoral system and proposals of how it can be reformed. (blogspot.com)
  • When it comes to the most common form of government in Western nations - representative democracy - both experts and the general public are broadly supportive. (pewresearch.org)
  • There are western governments, which prefer strong Internet regulation, argue that cybersecurity is more important than data protection and reduce their commitment to the multistakeholder model to the technical management of Internet resources as domain names, IP addresses or Internet protocols. (circleid.com)
  • WHO's renewed commitment to primary health care backed by functioning health systems. (who.int)
  • Dr ETIENNE (Assistant Director-General) thanked speakers for their commitment to the renewal of primary health care and strengthening of health systems. (who.int)
  • Gagnon's endeavour certainly sheds light on the plurality of ways democracy scholars have experienced and understood the concept. (medium.com)
  • In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. (booksamillion.com)
  • contends that making sense of democracy requires more than a lexicon. (medium.com)
  • This essential book shows that the stakes couldn't be higher and that, unless we radically alter our course, democracy will join feudalism, supreme monarchies and communism as just another political experiment that quietly disappeared. (penguin.co.uk)
  • An interactive map in this Our World in Data article shows which one of these four categories every country in the world fell into for every year since 1789. (blogspot.com)
  • Postwar planners in industry and government moved quickly to stabilize the system through the massive promotion of a sales effort in the form of a corporate marketing revolution based in Madison Avenue, and through the creation of a permanent warfare state, dedicated to the imperial control of world markets and to fighting the Cold War, with its headquarters in the Pentagon. (monthlyreview.org)
  • H uawei Technologies Co. is not a corporation but a weapon, subsidized by Beijing to install 4G and 5G telecommunications systems around the world. (the-american-interest.com)
  • In The Demon-Haunted World , he argues that scientific understanding and principles can eliminate bigotry, fight tyranny, and bolster democracy. (shortform.com)
  • And yes, we will see that more governments want to re-nationalize the global cyberspace and erect borders around their "national Internet segment" where they can control individuals, private corporations, personal data as well as the flow and the content of communication. (circleid.com)
  • AMO's Healthy Democracy Project will promote the value and importance of municipal governments in Ontario political system, while focusing on the importance of diversity of leadership and perspectives. (amo.on.ca)
  • The pledges outlined in the accords are legally non-binding, thus the success of the agreement centers around confidence in the system that when governments make promises, they are going to live up those promises," said the study's lead author David Victor, professor of industrial innovation at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy and co-director of the Deep Decarbonization Initiative. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Victor, also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-authors did a statistical analysis of the data set and found nations with more stable governments are more likely to have bold pledges that are highly credible. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Academic achievements (the student workload) at Lund University are measured according to a credit system. (lu.se)
  • To find out to what extent Ukraine is more likely to reflect Russian values than the values of its largest European neighbour - Poland - I use the most recent data from the European Values Study (2017). (lse.ac.uk)
  • In 2017, the American government finally took action and targeted Huawei, along with China itself, for transgressions ranging from unfair trade practices to subsidies, data theft, and intellectual property theft. (the-american-interest.com)
  • The implication is that American democracy was functioning flawlessly and better each day until Donald Trump encouraged a band of miscreants who looked as if they lost their way en route to a cosplay convention , almost succeeding in overturning a free and fair election. (timesofisrael.com)
  • No one should proclaim Donald Trump as a defender of democracy. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Here the term sleight-of-hand is brought to bear through the presentation of local choices as global- through the choice of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump for President as the realm of political possibility rather than the limitation on possibility that they represent. (counterpunch.org)
  • This is to argue that the political center as presented is a grift, a device of political 'normalization' around an elite view through the application of social pressure. (counterpunch.org)
  • Sagan argues that, once you adhere to the scientific tenets of skepticism and critical thinking, you'll probably extend these principles into the social and political sphere. (shortform.com)
  • Data not only refers or designates: it can also stage, guide and enact social life in different settings. (jonathangray.org)
  • In this presentation, I will introduce several instances where, in my own research on social media and politics, I have used machine learning techniques to make sense of a large data collection. (lu.se)
  • Nordic AI Popup Live - social media and democracy. (lu.se)
  • One bill among hundreds atop the Governor's desk is SB 3, which requires the Secretary of State and Fair Political Practices Commission to take meaningful steps towards modernizing and replacing Cal-Access. (cafwd.org)
  • In addition to the familiar genres of enumerating people, resources, space and time which have been institutionalised for centuries (through official statistics or accounting practices, for example), the digital infrastructures and devices that surround us proliferate data as a result of their every interaction. (jonathangray.org)
  • Interested academics (i.e., students, faculty, and researchers affiliated with a higher education institution, government agency, or think tank) may download data free of charge. (msu.edu)
  • Both stimulating and incisive, the Advanced Introduction to Party Systems will be an indispensable read for academics and students in politics and public policy, political geography and geopolitics, international relations, and leadership studies. (e-elgar.com)
  • The Left is trying to build the narrative that the events of January 6th were the manifestation of a new type of assault on democracy that academics call backsliding. (timesofisrael.com)
  • In 2018, partly in response to these ongoing challenges to U.S. democracy, voters across the nation elected a historically large and diverse class of House freshmen after these candidates campaigned on a pledge to curb the culture of corruption and protect voting rights. (americanprogress.org)
  • Still, in my opinion, dissatisfied voters unwilling to accept election results spurred on by demagogues are not America's most significant threat to democracy. (timesofisrael.com)
  • ElectionGuide is provided by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), an international non-profit dedicated to strengthening electoral democracy. (lu.se)
  • The expansion of authoritarian rule, combined with the fading and inconsistent presence of major democracies on the international stage, has had tangible effects on human life and security, including the frequent resort to military force to resolve political disputes. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The globalEDGE Database of International Business Statistics (DIBS) is a comprehensive source of statistical data. (msu.edu)
  • Given the increasing ubiquity of technological systems and services, an international platform is needed to research their implementation and influence on democracy. (inderscience.com)
  • The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is an intergovernmental organization. (lu.se)
  • Partnership and the High Level Task Force on Innovative International Finance for Health Systems. (who.int)
  • The story becomes more interesting if we examine some political views. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Making sense of democracy thus requires us to examine how these words resonate (or not) with people as they are the ones who shape their meaning. (medium.com)
  • Technology and transparency were both essential in the creation of the digital revolution as they dramatically affected information flows between citizen and state, however early utopian ideas (including the author's own) that these changes inherently favored democracy were premature. (columbia.edu)
  • Political signs for both candidates have already disappeared from most people's front lawns. (salon.com)
  • The idea being promoted that the dominant Party candidates represent majority political views is contradicted by their combined support of around 16% of the eligible electorate. (counterpunch.org)
  • An update on major political events, candidates, and parties twice a week. (csmonitor.com)
  • The aim of the course is to make students acquainted with some elements of political thought and political theory. (uu.se)
  • During the lectures, the students will encounter important political and theoretical traditions and thinkers that have shaped our understanding of the things that are considered important in political theory. (uu.se)
  • This is also true of the other textbook, Johan Tralau's Inbjudan till politisk teori , which is about what one does when doing political theory. (uu.se)
  • Moreover, is seeking a single theory of democracy even possible - or desirable? (medium.com)
  • Data, facts and theory. (unibocconi.it)
  • The course also examines different theoretical perspectives on the meaning of key concepts like democracy, experts, and expert knowledge. (lu.se)
  • EU:s politiska system. (lu.se)
  • At the same time, several states approved bold democracy reform solutions. (americanprogress.org)
  • The only requirements are that you register on globalEDGE using an institutional (.edu or .gov) email address and provide a description of the study you are conducting using DIBS (each time you download data). (msu.edu)
  • My misgivings relate to the extent to which Gagnon's endeavour can help us make sense of democracy in the present time while keeping its future meaning and practice open. (medium.com)
  • Words capture interpretations of democracy at a specific moment in time and space. (medium.com)
  • Stepping up to fill the void, MapLight launched California Power Search , a new tool created with the raw campaign finance data released earlier this month for the first time by the Secretary of State after a wave of public pressure . (cafwd.org)
  • Paul Webb's Advanced Introduction provides the definitive review of the state of political parties and party systems today. (e-elgar.com)
  • In many ways, mainstream parties of the entire political spectrum -- from the BJP to the Congress(I) to the CPM -- have played a key role in segmenting the Indian polity along community and caste lines to nurture their vote banks. (org.in)
  • In riot-affected areas, our survey reveals few people looked to political parties to give them either protection or succour. (org.in)
  • The dominant political Parties are anything but dominant in terms of representing the people they claim to represent. (counterpunch.org)
  • Political parties across the globe use it to manage data and campaigns. (researchgate.net)
  • The course Parties and Political Behaviours explores the theories, methods and empirical results that relate to political decision-making in different political systems. (lu.se)
  • And, in light of recent data breach scandals around companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, what does that mean for democracy, our delicately balanced system of government that was created long before big data, total information and artificial intelligence? (penguin.co.uk)
  • First, her observations as the journalist and litigant in the legal case that forced the digitization of UK parliamentary expense records, which when leaked created one of the biggest political scandals in that country for decades. (columbia.edu)
  • and ideas, values and ideologies have been particularly important in constraining, and sometimes spurring, health system reform efforts. (bvsalud.org)
  • This description of the Iroquois Confederacy is numbered "XVIII," indicating that it is part of a worldwide survey of federal systems of government. (ratical.org)
  • We began the review by identifying peer-reviewed literature on health system reform in South Africa, and iteratively expanded the search through author tracking, citation tracking and purposeful searches for material on particular events or processes referenced in the initial body of evidence. (bvsalud.org)
  • Machine learning processes relying on big data might reinforce biases and prejudices inherent in the data. (lu.se)
  • 17: Kenck, Tony I am very interested in election methods, believing that our current system is the root of MANY evils. (rangevoting.org)
  • Independent Commission on the Voting System (United Kingdom): full text of the "Jenkins Report" in October 1998. (blogspot.com)