Resilient NGOs counter COVID-driven media crisis
COVID-19 deepened Serbia’s local media crisis. Here’s what one @NEDemocracy partner did to help. https://t.co/ddqLTKVbpS — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 11, 2020
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COVID-19 ‘a moment of reckoning’ for democratic order
COVID-19 marks a moment of reckoning for our era, according to a new book. While the pandemic is not likely to claim as many lives as the period from 1939… Read more »
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 »
COVID-19, internal divisions testing democracy’s resilience
We under-appreciated the way how people consume #information, how campaigns are being conduct and how information is being spread #online, @Walker_CT @NEDemocracy @ThinkDemocracy @demdigest pic.twitter.com/5RMk0Orpdq — GLOBSEC (@GLOBSEC) August… 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 »
Latin America’s Covid-driven populism: Democracy at risk or resilient?
Populist leaders often use moments of crisis to advance authoritarian agendas, according to Arminio Fraga and Guillermo Ortiz, respectively former president of Brazil’s central bank and former governor of Mexico’s central… 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 »
How Covid exposes authoritarian weaknesses
As the coronavirus has spread, many political observers have warned that it is bolstering authoritarianism,* suggesting that a devastating biological virus has translated into a damaging political virus that has markedly… Read more »
Autocrats turning COVID crisis into opportunity. Really?
According to pro-democracy institutions, authoritarianism was on the rise globally even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, PBS reports. But experts say the distraction of the crisis has allowed some leaders… 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 »