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Check out the 25 most influential Congressional books, selected by MIT Prof. Charles Stewart. Then, learn more about #Congress and the American political system in our new course. https://bit.ly/3HyL0UQ MIT Political Science #openeducation #highereducation #onlinelearning #lifelonglearning #government

Read the new blog post from the #AdaptiveDemocracy research team! Adaptive Democracy

Political Science professor Maggie Macdonald, PhD studies elite political behavior in the United States. Check out the video to learn more about Macdonald's work! #SocialScienceExcellence 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJkzDvEJ

To reach the next stage of democratic innovation, we need to move beyond simplistic approaches and think of democracies as balanced ecosystems. 🪴🌳 Here are five strategies for growing ecosystems of democracy. 👇 Want to learn more? Read Josh Lerner's white paper commissioned by the Biden School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Delaware Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Ithaca Initiative: https://lnkd.in/gnZg4qWe

Great insights from the talk of Prof. Frank R. Baumgartner on "The Intellectual Benefits of Diversity: How Political Science Suffers from Its Lack of Diversity, and How It Can Do Better" hosted by the Public Policy Institute. Prof Baumgartner has provided the link to the paper (pasted here) for those who are interested in this topic. #Diversity #AcademicDiversity https://lnkd.in/gD8Q5M6D

Explore the Depths of Politics! 📚 Delve into a captivating political science research project that unravels the complexities of governance and global dynamics. 🌍 If you're eager to enhance your understanding of political systems, theories, and current events, reach out to me on LinkedIn. Let's embark on this enlightening journey together! 🤝 #PoliticalScience #ResearchProjectForSale #LinkedInConnection

Last month, #WilliamandMary scholars Alexandra Byrne, Bilen Zerie, and Kelebogile Zvobgo, Ph.D. with the International Justice Lab released #research that offers the first systematic, global study of setting and implementing the memorialization agenda in post-violence societies. Drawing on original data, they generate a theory of the political contests and conflicts that different memory projects are likely to trigger. Learn more at https://ow.ly/rOJA50SnlOc!

🇺🇸 Are young people uniquely positioned to engage on the front lines, innovating and pushing for new forms of democracy? Or are they so frustrated with false promises of democracy that they are turning towards authoritarianism? SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and International Republican Institute explore these questions in this newly released report: https://buff.ly/3XnRNtZ

Reallly enjoyed doing the World Cafe on democracy at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). I actually had to cut a few lines as I was running low on time, so here is the full text of what I said (sorry due to LinkedIn character limits it runs over a few posts). —- Key question I have been asked to address: What are the main challenges faced by democracies? I wanted to identify a few challenges, some of which are new and quite context specific, others of which are very long-standing and recognisable from history. The first challenge in addressing this question is definitional: specifically, what do we mean when we talk about a democracy? While there are have always been examples of pseudo-democratic practices in authoritarian regimes (elections in East Germany for example), I think we can safely say that today we see a greater blurring between the democratic and authoritarian. There are many more countries that hold elections. At the extreme level those are pseudo elections (Russia). But there are plenty of examples where important elements of the institutional machinery required for a truly free and fair election are captured (electoral commissions, media etc), or where recent years have seen a growing threat of political violence. This is happening both in newer democracies (such as Hungary), but also in older democracies (India, the United States). So when we think about the challenges faced by democracies (in the plural) we also need to recognise that we are talking about a range systems. [1/n]

Checking proofs! Dr. Lisa Bogerts and me have contributed a chapter on "Visuality". In this chapter we examine how visuality can enrich the analysis of power in global politics. Forthcoming early 2025: https://lnkd.in/ghDtjyYd