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 Democratic Stability and Backsliding

Political Philosophy
In light of mounting concerns about democratic backsliding, Rawls’s work – which has an unusual focus on considerations of stability – is now being mined for insights about democratic fragility.
Ryan Pevnick
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
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A Wounded Democracy: Analysis of the Determinant Factors of Democratic Backsliding in Brazil

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Despite its prominence in the international political landscape and its widespread adoption throughout the world, democracy is seldom a stable regimen, and often repeatedly stressed and tested by attempts to wield autocratic power.
Davi Mendes Málaga, Suely de Fátima Ramos Silveira   +1 more
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Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration

, 2023
Both political parties and differentiated integration (DI) play an ambivalent role in regard to democratic backsliding. Parties’ positioning towards democratic backsliding has not always been straightforward, and DI has been seen as facilitating it.
Lorimer, Marta, Kröger, Sandra, Bellamy, Richard   +2 more
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ViTAMIn‐O: Democratizing Computer Vision‐Based Machine Learning for Stem Cell Research

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study introduces a fully open generalist computer vision model for predicting the differentiation outcomes of stem cell‐based model systems, together with its code‐free deployment platform, ColabViTAMIn‐O. It is benchmarked against various architectures, datasets, and training protocols.
Ferhat Hamurcu, Markus Breunig, Arpad Varga, Bianka Bosch, Jessica Lindenmayer, Anjan T. Kanakappady, Kevin Achberger, Natalia Pashkovskaia, Alexander Kleger, Stefan Liebau, Stefanie Klingenstein, Moritz Klingenstein   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy dismantling by capacity manipulation in a context of democratic backsliding: The bureaucracy in disarray in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

International Review of Public Policy, 2022
The policy dismantling framework was developed to account for processes involving the reduction or termination of existing policies, especially in the so-called advanced democracies.
Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
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Community partner perspectives on community‐academic health research partnerships with Black American communities: A scoping review

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Evaluations of community‐engaged research (CEnR) typically emphasize health outcomes rather than the partnership processes that contribute to intervention effectiveness. This scoping review synthesized community partner‐identified strategies for successful community‐academic health research partnerships with Black American communities and ...
Kaylyn A. Garcia, Dylan R. Wong, Derek M. Griffith, Nada M. Goodrum, Bret Kloos, Shannon Deutsch, Guillermo M. Wippold   +6 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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The Diversity of Actors in Reform Backsliding and Its Containment in the Ukrainian Hybrid Regime

Politics and Governance, 2023
Numerous studies on democratic backsliding mostly focus on the state executive as a driving force. In contrast, the analysis presented here highlights the role of vested interests as the main actors behind backsliding processes in hybrid regimes.
Michael Martin Richter
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