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Cover reveal! 🥘 Why do images and reports of starving and malnourished Africans appear so often in the media? 🥘 What are the actual dimensions of the problem? 🥘 ...And what has trade and climate got to do with it? In How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks, award-winning author David Luke and a team of researchers seek to answer these questions, to explain why Africa struggles with food security and what can be done about it. The intersection between trade, agriculture policies, and climate risks is fundamental to this enquiry. Publishing #OpenAccess Spring 2025. This book will be free to read and download from our website. 🔗 #Trade #Africa #AfricanFood #ClimateRisks #FoodSecurity #AfricaStudies The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa

Exploring Australian democracy and the erosion of public trust as mapped in his new #OpenAccess collection, Australia's Evolving Democracy, editor Mark Evans writes for The Conversation Australia + NZ. 💬 Out now and free to read and download from the LSE Press website: https://lnkd.in/eJcJ8kBa #Australia #Democracy #Trust #Politics #Government #Policy #OpenResearch The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

We are living in an age of unprecedented transparency, but is our openness undermining rather than strengthening liberal societies? 👓🔍 In The Open Society as an Enemy - Jason Alexander asks, has this aspect of the Open Society become its own worst enemy? 💬 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/egaH8YKd 👇 This book is free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing here: https://lnkd.in/eaMFmQm9 LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) #KarlPopper #OpenSociety #Democracy #Politics 

In Australia’s Evolving Democracy, a team of leading academic authors use an audit approach to critically explore national government institutions, as well as state- and territory-level politics. An in-depth, nuanced approach to multiple democratic issues across the whole of the country’s distinctive political system - this book provides analysis that is accessible for students new to Australian politics, along with many insights for political scientists studying comparative democratic politics and Australian institutions. 📖 Free to read and download via #OpenAccess here: https://lnkd.in/eJcJ8kBa LSE Department of Government Charles Sturt University #AustralianDemocracy #Australia #Politics #Democracy #Voting #Policy The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Thank you to our wonderful expert panel for today's special event: Michelle Grattan, David Pocock, Mark Evans and Allegra Spender with moderator, Stan Grant. Our esteemed guests expanded on findings from the New Democratic Audit of Australia, which concludes that Australian democracy is not in crisis but we do have a policy crisis that requires reflection and reinvention. "To renew its democracy, Australia needs to bridge the trust divide by making the system of government more representative, accountable, collaborative and responsive to the needs of citizens," says co-editor, Mark Evans. 📖 Download 'Australia’s Evolving Democracy: A New Democratic Audit' FREE from LSE Press: https://lnkd.in/ga27VAE4

Check out the new issue of #ResearchForTheWorld magazine - including an interview with LSE Press author J. McKenzie Alexander following the publication of his new book, The Open Society as an Enemy: https://lnkd.in/egaH8YKd 📖 This book is free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing: https://lnkd.in/eaMFmQm9 LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method LSE Blogs #KarlPopper #OpenSociety

Limited tickets are still available for tomorrow's launch of 'Australia’s Evolving Democracy: A New Democratic Audit' and panel discussion at Parliament House and online. Discussing findings of the New Democratic Audit of Australia, Stan Grant, Michelle Grattan, Mark Evans, David Pocock and Allegra Spender will ask, Is it time to renew Australia's democracy? Attendance is free in person at Parliament House, Canberra or online from 12:30–1:30 pm AEDT. Book your ticket for in-person or online attendance: https://lnkd.in/geuFz2bM Download 'Australia’s Evolving Democracy: A New Democratic Audit' free from LSE Press: https://lnkd.in/ga27VAE4 Charles Sturt University - TEQSA Provider Identification: PRV12018 (Australian University). CRICOS Provider: 00005F. #CharlesSturtResearch #Democracy #BookLaunch #FreeEvent Renée Leon Neena Mitter Michele Allan AO

"Alexander critiques how surveillance capitalism and the commodification of personal data erode individual freedoms while empowering tech giants ...The Open Society as an Enemy is an intellectually rich contribution to the ongoing dialogue about the future of liberal democracies." 🧠 👩💻 Revisiting #KarlPopper’s foundational work on the concept of the #OpenSociety in relation to contemporary threats to #democratic values, from the rise of populist nationalism to digital surveillance - Mazlum Özkan (University of Groningen and SCOOP Sustainable Cooperation Program) reviews The Open Society as an Enemy: A Critique of How Free Societies Turned Against Themselves by J. McKenzie Alexander (LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method) for LSE Review of Books. https://lnkd.in/eEb47xEu LSE Blogs The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) #OpenAccess #Philosophy

✊ In The Open Society and its Enemies, Karl Popper defended the Open Society – a conception of liberal democracy in which individuals have freedom of choice – against external ideological threats presented by totalitarian and authoritarian leaders. However, today's threats to the Open Society come primarily from within, through populist movements on both left and right. Drawing on his recent LSE Press book, Professor J. McKenzie Alexander from LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method identifies some of the ways in which the Open Society has come to be seen as an enemy at our next Research Showcase. 📍 Tuesday 4 February, 11am, Shaw Library: https://ow.ly/XbVu50UNXnw 📖 Download his book for free: https://lnkd.in/eaMFmQm9

New podcast 🔊 Charles Sturt researchers Stan Grant and Jack Jacobs invited author and co-editor Patrick Dunleavy to speak on Yindyamarra podcast, listen below. Australia's Evolving Democracy is out now via #OpenAccess publishing with LSE Press, free to read and download here: https://lnkd.in/eJcJ8kBa