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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific
ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle +4 more
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Context matters for the relationship between national identity and perceived democratic quality: National pride as a blind spot. [PDF]
Abstract A growing body of evidence shows that national identity is positively related to attitudes toward societal and political systems. Yet much less is known about contextual factors that may modify this relationship. Distinguishing two facets of national identity—attachment and pride—and focusing on perceived democratic quality as a core system ...
Hadarics M.
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad
Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
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"The New State That We Are Building": Authoritarianism and System-Justification in an Illiberal Democracy. [PDF]
Lönnqvist JE, Szabó ZP, Kelemen L.
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Corruption and Democracy [PDF]
What is the impact of democracy on corruption? In most models, analysts assume a negative relationship, with more democracy leading to less corruption.
Michael T. Rock
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Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy
Abstract Strategic litigation is a growing public concern, but remains understudied in democratic theory. In strategic litigation, collectives go to court with a political agenda that goes beyond their specific case. How should we assess the legitimacy of strategic litigation? Building on Lafont's model of deliberative democracy and Klein's distinction
Svenja Ahlhaus
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A majority of the world\u27s nations identify themselves as democracies, but their interpretations of democracy vary widely. Dr. Matthew Lungerhausen, Dr. Erich Lippman, Dr. Edward Guernica, and Dr.
Winona State University - Darrell W. Krueger Library
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Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu +3 more
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This open access book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of the media in the rise of illiberalism, based on an original theoretical framework and extensive empirical research in Eastern Europe – a region that serves as a key battleground ...
Štětka, Václav, Mihelj, Sabina
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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