PhD Review: Friends or Foes, Does Polarisation Really Undermine Democracy? Understanding the Two-Way Relationship Between Polarisation Dynamics and the Processes and Institutions of Democratic Cont...

A critical review of the PhD dissertation by @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social): plc-journal.eu/article/view...

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Let’s Rethink The Lords: An Ethical Chamber Up to now, this has all been quite deliberately sketchy. We’ve talked about why ethical reasoning keeps getting pushed into the House of Lords by default, and what might change if we gave it a clearer home. At some point, though, the obvious question arrives: how would something like this actually work in practice? So let’s try to answer that without building a constitutional castle in the air.

If an ethics body existed, it shouldn’t be loud or powerful.
It should be boring, steady — and impossible to ignore later.
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Tyranny of the One

"Tyranny of the One" by Claus highlights how Switzerland’s plural executive structure shields against tyranny, offering lessons for safeguarding democracy amid rising populism. spkl.io/63326Aqnms #Democracy #ConstitutionalLaw #InstitutionalDesign

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US Government Typography: Why Calibri Was Dropped in Favor of Times New Roman The recent decision by the US State Department to abandon Calibri and reinstate Times New Roman has reignited a long-standing debate about US government typography and the role design plays in institu...

When typography changes, institutions speak louder than words.What does US government typography reveal about power and identity? #OtavioDesign #Typography #DesignAndPolitics #VisualCulture #InstitutionalDesign #GraphicDesign #DesignTheory
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"The purpose of the system is what it does." (Stafford Beer)

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Institutional Collapse and Renewal End-stage bureaucracy, networked resilience, and new legitimacy

Institutional Collapse and Renewal open.substack.com/pub/augurnom... #InstitutionalCollapse
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Generational Trust in Fracture An Augurnomics Readers Companion Essay

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Democracy's resilience comes from institutional friction—the processes that slow decision-making while increasing legitimacy. Too much efficiency produces brittleness; too little creates paralysis. Balance matters. #InstitutionalDesign

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