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“At the end of the day, citizens are really the best and only safeguard for democracy.” Tune in to Democracy Dialogues here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ne...

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Annual themes:
education and citizens’ democratic engagement

crisis, governance, and development

democracy and technology

democracy and climate

democratic backsliding, resilience, and resistance

media, political communications, political psychology, and democracy

Call for Applications re: Non-Resident Fellowship at Cornell Brooks Center on Global Democracy

Designed for academics and practitioners, the NRF is a one-year fellowship designed to expand networks & research collaborations globally.

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Front cover of Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience by Bunce et al.

'Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience' by Bunce, @tompepinsky.com, @beattyriedl.bsky.social & Roberts is now available using our #BISA2025 30% discount.

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Front cover of Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience by Bunce et al.

'Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience' by Bunce, @tompepinsky.com, @beattyriedl.bsky.social & Roberts.

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A comprehensive, cross-regional comparative study of democratic backsliding and resiliency around the world.

How the U.S. Can Still Defend Democracy: Global Lessons on Building Broad Coalitions Signs of public dissent have begun to grow in the United States from many different corners. People are mobilizing in the streets, in statehouses, in places of worship, and in town halls against perce...

Broad coalitions help to defend democracy - what the US can learn from comparative perspective (coauthored w @jennifermccoy.bsky.social )

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Targeting higher education is an essential tool in the autocratic playbook The targeting of higher education institutions in the U.S. is reminiscent of authoritarian strategies in other countries.

Targeting higher education is an essential tool in the autocratic playbook www.brookings.edu/articles/tar...
My recent analysis with Jonathan Katz and Renée Rippberger @brookings.edu

Democracy across the world is being undermined by the very forces that once made it possible.

@beattyriedl.bsky.social explains how global concentration of wealth has made democratic governance less effective and stripped the people of their power.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Contents:

▪️ Types of Democratic Resilience
by Rachel Beatty Riedl (@beattyriedl.bsky.social), Jennifer McCoy (@jennifermccoy.bsky.social), Kenneth Roberts, Paul Friesen

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▪️ From Electoral U-turns to Re-democratisation
by Nic Cheeseman (@fromagehomme.bsky.social), Licia Cianetti

Democracy across the world is being undermined by the very forces that once made it possible.

@beattyriedl.bsky.social explains how global concentration of wealth has made democratic governance less effective and stripped the people of their power.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Opinion | What Is Lost When We Scare Away Foreign Students The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.

This speaks to the real contributions international students and faculty make every day, and the real harm we are all facing : www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

#50year #thirdwave @jodemocracy.bsky.social
See the compilations of reflections on 50 years of the third wave of democracy in JOD, with @dnsltr.bsky.social & Scott Mainwaring

Early stage neoliberalism combined political & economic competition=3rd wave of democracy formula.
late stage neoliberalism is characterized by extreme economic concentration globally& undermining democracy as inclusive fair political competition.
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/neo...

U.S. democracy is under attack. Here are some lessons for democracy’s defenders. A global study of democratic backsliding and resilience offers ways to resist authoritarian attacks.

The world today provides important lessons for how to identify and resist autocrats.

In their piece for @goodauth.bsky.social, @jennifermccoy.bsky.social @beattyriedl.bsky.social Kenneth Roberts & @muratsomer-eng.bsky.social highlight six key lessons on how to counter threats to democracy👇

U.S. democracy is under attack. Here are some lessons for democracy’s defenders. A global study of democratic backsliding and resilience offers ways to resist authoritarian attacks.

What can the U.S. learn from other countries living through threats to democracy? Lessons from our global research and 15 case studies distilled in my new commentary with @beattyriedl.bsky.social Ken Roberts, and @muratsomer-eng.bsky.social include: (1/3)
goodauthority.org/news/us-demo...

U.S. democracy is under attack. Here are some lessons for democracy’s defenders. A global study of democratic backsliding and resilience offers ways to resist authoritarian attacks.

New op-ed out @goodauth.bsky.social based on our global research w Ken Roberts, @muratsomer-eng.bsky.social @jennifermccoy.bsky.social
Timely lessons re pressure on institutions and nature of pro-democracy coalitions

goodauthority.org/news/us-demo...

Special issue : democratic #backsliding and resistance strategies ! With @jennifermccoy.bsky.social @muratsomer-eng.bsky.social and Ken Roberts along with incredible case study authors
www.aapss.org/annals/volum...

With excellent cast studies of key countries for lessons : Malawi , Poland, Hungary, Turkey, India, Ecuador etc

Yes I will send you the link !

Democratic Mobilizing: Comparative Responses to Backsliding Threats

Happening today , join us virtually 5pm eastern: Comparative responses to Backsliding threats events.cornell.edu/event/democr...

W @dnsltr.bsky.social et al!

@ UCT Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance w old friends and new - on #democracy and #development , part of @ CEU hub network!

Feel this very deeply! Wishing you well for the semester !!! 🙏🙏🙏

Join Dan Slater and I @ the IPPA International Conference on Public Policy (Chiang Mai Thailand July 2-4) by submitting a paper for panel T02P11 on Democratic Resistance: Domestic and International Policy Struggles. (CFP open until Jan 31).

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Brooks lecturer teaches global democracy one headline at a time | Cornell Chronicle The day after martial law was declared in the Republic of Korea, Tom Garrett– Einaudi Center Lund Practitioner in Residence and Distinguished Global Democracy Lecturer in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks Sch...

At Cornell’s Brooks School of Public Policy and the Einaudi Center for International Studies, we’ve been so fortunate to host Thomas Garrett as the Lund practitioner in Residence and Distinguished Global Democracy Lecturer. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Thank you Guy! All proposals welcome !

What just happened in Romania's election? Călin Georgescu unexpectedly won Romania's first-round presidential election. But will the second-round vote take place on December 8?

Following what's happening with the Romanian election? @worldpolitics.bsky.social editorial chair @grigopop.bsky.social breaks it down in his @goodauth.bsky.social piece. goodauthority.org/news/calin-g...

Congrats Deva!!