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🌟 Exciting Faculty Update! 🌟 Thrilled to share insights from an exclusive interview with Dr. Del Dickson, renowned USD professor and author of The People's Government. 📚 In the conversation with Dr. Dickson, he delved into the heart of democracy by unraveling its key concepts and profound significance in today's world. Here are some highlights: 🔍 Exploring the Essence: Dr. Dickson broke down the concept of "free democracy," and explored the difference between liberty and freedom. 🌐 Global Perspectives: Addressing the challenges facing democracy around the world, Dr. Dickson drew upon theories by renowned political scientists such as Hannah Arendt and Samuel Huntington, and offered perspectives on democracies in developed and developing nations. 💡 Empowering Future Generations: Recognizing the significance of education in nuturing democractic values, Dr. Dickson underscored the importance of understanding what democracy means in order to better equip future generations with the knowledge and critical thinking skills necessary for democratic participation. 📚 The Book's Impact: Dr. Dickson shared insights into his book's role in demystifying democracy and fostering a deeper understanding of its complexities and challenges. By examining democracy's vulnerabilities and engaging with diverse theoretical perspectives, readers are empowered to critically assess and contribute to democractic processes. 🎉 Join the Conversation! 🎉 Engage with this enlightening discussion as we dive into the essence of democracy and its transformative potential. Share your thoughts, insights, and questions in the comments below, and let's continue to champion the principles of democracy together! #Democracy #FreeDemocracy #InterviewInsights Don't miss out on this enlightening discussion—click the link below to read the full interview with Dr. Del Dickson: https://lnkd.in/gBc5_emZ The People's Government | Facultifaculti.net • 1 min read

📰 New Article Alert 📰 & Open Access: "Public Administration in Authoritarian Regimes: Propositions for Comparative Research" by Kwan Nok Chan Abstract: Authoritarian regimes share an architecture of power that shores up unilateral control from the top while weakening bottom-up initiatives organised independently of central support. This kind of collective choice environment entails administrative options and policy strategies unanticipated by standard theories that explain public administration where the exercise of power is circumscribed by the separation of powers and political representation. How public administration in authoritarian regimes is shaped by radically different patterns of elite power play and state-society interactions is set out in ten propositions, with a focus on why governance solutions that seem inadequate or even impracticable in liberal democracies would be favoured and how variations in leadership style can cascade into broader disparities in administrative behaviour. The conclusion offers an example of how public policy theories originally developed to account for administrative processes and outcomes in the US and other democracies can be comparatively adapted to non-democratic systems. https://lnkd.in/d-ai9hYW

New open access publication! How does authoritarian populist rule affect interest groups' access to the bureaucracy and regulatory agencies? https://lnkd.in/eNKYBZ8T The involvement of external stakeholders in regulation and governance is a key feature in modern political economies (and fairly "unpolitical" or rather politically rarely salient), which has far reaching consequences on policymaking (it's quality, it's inclusiveness, it's transparency, etc.). Thus understanding the effects of populist rule in general and democratic backsliding in particular on interest groups' access to regulators is one of the most important research questions in this era of rising authoritarian populism across the globe. To our knowledge, our article is the first survey-based inquiry of this subject.

Call for Chapter Proposals in the following general areas 👇 1. Digital Governance and E-Government 2. Power Dynamics and Political Institutions 3. Crisis Governance and Resilience 4. Identity Politics and Governance 5. Globalization and Governance Challenges 6. Post-Colonial Perspectives on Political Theory 7. Innovations in Democratic Governance 8. Transnational Governance Institutions 9. Networked Activism and Political Change 10. Post-Truth Politics and Governance 11. Global Economic Governance #politicalscience #publicpolicy

Moral Responsibility in Economic Downturns: A Call for Collective Action in Developing Nations| IPRR Impact and Policy Research Review | Volume 3, Issue 1, January-June 2024 | Insights https://lnkd.in/gRdDtNyF By Md. Lawha Mahfuz #sustainability #economy #development IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute #IMPRI #Journal #IPRR #policyresearch #policy #impact

Moral Responsibility in Economic Downturns: A Call for Collective Action in Developing Nations| IPRR Impact and Policy Research Review | Volume 3, Issue 1, January-June 2024 | Insights https://lnkd.in/gRdDtNyF By Md. Lawha Mahfuz #sustainability #economy #development IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute #IMPRI #Journal #IPRR #policyresearch #policy #impact

“When Governments Learn from Co-partisans: Partisan Policy Diffusion” - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gyaceXtq Louis Brandeis' theory of states as laboratories of democracy suggests that governments engage in learning, emulating successful policies from other states and rejecting unsuccessful ones. However, Brandeis' theory did not address the role of parties. Politicians have incentives to avoid implementing successful outpartisan policies, as this may improve the outparty brand. Furthermore, organizations, such as party-aligned interest and expert groups that provide policymakers with information, may bias institutional learning against outpartisan policies. In turn, state governments may not converge on politically or economically successful policies. This article tests theories of partisan policy learning using a large dataset of policies in the U.S. states. Emulation of successful policies is more likely to occur between governments controlled by the same party. Consistent with the nationalization of party coalitions, success interacts more weakly with geography. The findings have implications for our understanding of the incentives of federalism in the context of partisan polarization.

Moral Responsibility in Economic Downturns: A Call for Collective Action in Developing Nations | IPRR Impact and Policy Research Review | Volume 3, Issue 1, January-June 2024 | Insights https://lnkd.in/gRdDtNyF By Md. Lawha Mahfuz #sustainability #economy #development IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute #IMPRI #Journal #IPRR #policyresearch #policy #impact

*Are Citizens' Discontent and Unhappiness Rooted in the Longevity of Political Leaders in Certain Countries?* A few responses can be found in our new publication in Politics and policy. Enjoy !!! Thanks https://lnkd.in/eSg6QWeM

NEW: We've published an independent evaluation of collaborative outreach work this morning, as well as an analysis of the economic benefits of Uni Connect. You can read the reports here: bit.ly/3UZ2Ecu