A lesson in pandemic democracy?
What if the coronavirus pandemic delayed an election and no one cared? Bloomberg’s David Fickling asks. That’s pretty much what’s happening in New Zealand, where Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appears… Read more »
Category: Democracy Digest
Call for Proposals – shrinking civic, democratic and civil society space
EIDHR 2020 Global Call for Proposals – European External Action Service https://t.co/R6AUrr7G8c — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) October 4, 2020 The 2020 European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights Global… Read more »
Why we should take media satire seriously
Why we should take satire in media seriously @CIMA_Media https://t.co/suRY1TTDwl — NEDemocracy (@NEDemocracy) September 22, 2020
Lorne Craner’s democratic commitment ‘built into his DNA’
Democracy advocates yesterday paid tribute to Lorne W. Craner, a tireless champion of democracy and human rights. The longest-serving President of the International Republican Institute – 1995-2001 and 2004-2014 – passed… Read more »
COVID-19 and democracy: Can parliaments come to the rescue?
Can parliaments learn from the past six months to become stronger and more effective institutions that impose checks and balances on executive powers to better serve the people? analysts ask… Read more »
Will Putin make it to 2024?
Russia’s prime minister will visit Belarus today, Reuters reports (HT:CFR) and Belarus’s defense minister will be in Moscow tomorrow as the two countries step up diplomacy in the face of continued… Read more »
How to stop Covid disinformation promoting polarization
The Global Disinformation Index estimates that 25 million USD will unwittingly go to funding all kinds of COVID-19 conspiracies and disinformation disseminating outlets in 2020 alone, GLOBSEC reports (above). The… Read more »
Saving liberal democracy from China’s non-existential threat
Saving Liberal Democracy by Chris Patten @ProSyn https://t.co/eNHd0KpH2E — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 26, 2020 Hong Kong police have been accused of re-writing history over their account of an attack… Read more »
Belarus ‘reminiscent of Ukraine’s Maidan’ – or not even close?
Brotherly people…? Should we then expect “fraternal assistance” from the Kremlin to Belarus? Like the fraternal assistance the Soviet Union provided to Czechoslovakia in 1968? https://t.co/0gSdG5Ll6q — Daniel Fried… Read more »
Cuba’s liquidity crisis: Will Covid force reform or further repression?
The #Castro regime has aged badly. Cuba’s rum was legendary, before the regime stole it to finance their repression. Now every bottle sold keeps Cuba’s dictatorship in power longer…. Read more »