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Poison or Medicine? How Facebook Algorithms Facilitated a Genocide

9 March 2023
Asia/Conflict and conspiracy/Democracy 2022/Features/Security & War/The Internet

As the world grows digital, media landscapes are drastically changing. With digitalization and the transformation of media ecosystems came great hopes that social networks would foster meaningful political participation, enlarging the public sphere, and bringing democratic values forward. Yet, social platforms, while encouraging the expression of oppositional voices, have also…

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Democratic Backsliding in Poland: The Effect of Social Media and Future Prospects for Polish Rule of Law

9 March 2023
Democracy 2022/Europe/Features/Intersectionality/Politics/The Internet

Since 2015, PiS has cracked down on the independence of various media outlets and Polish courts by appointing its political allies in leading positions. Starting with the media – for several years, the PiS-led government has consolidated its control over public broadcasting by installing its political allies in the National…

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A Walk Up the Dark Mountain: An Uncivilisational Approach Towards the Environmental Crisis

6 March 2023
Democracy 2022/Environment/Opinion pieces/Philosophy

As we walk through the pillar vault of the democratic world, the capitals still shine, representing the achievements of the long political process of democratisation. However, achievements in a more turbulent world are under threat.…

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With the Future of Democracy on the Line 

6 March 2023
Democracy 2022/Opinion pieces/Politics

Imagine a world where free speech, free choice, and free thoughts are a thing of the past, something merely forgotten by the citizens, yet still felt in their core to be missing. It might seem like the ultimate gloom, a distant dystopia based on contrivances produced by a restless mind…

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Do we live in a true democracy?

6 March 2023
Democracy 2022/Features/Politics

‘Democracy’ may be one of the most used terms in political discourse. Some see it as the light at the end of a long dark period of human history, others see it as degenerative, and still others see it as not progressive enough. But do we really know the concept…

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The Blind Spots of Democracy 

6 March 2023
Democracy 2022/Features/Politics

We live in times where democratic values are heavily tested. According to Freedom House, democracy has been in decline globally since 2005, and the pandemic of Covid-19 only exacerbated this trend. Even previous bastions of democracy, such as France and the United States, could be seen to heavily infringe constitutional…

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Crisis in World Democracy: Or Is There Really Such a Thing?

6 March 2023
Democracy 2022/Opinion pieces/Philosophy

It is not much of a challenge for us in the West to perceive the rise of modern liberal democracy as the predestined fate for our nations, similar to the view of the steady establishment of the present-day nation-state. This deterministic attitude deletes not merely all other possible options, but…

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The New Old Denmark: Leaving Liberal Democracy Behind?

6 March 2023
Europe/Features/Politics

Denmark is one of the premier democracies in the world and is generally considered to be one of the best countries to live in. Its success is based on being a liberal democracy and as such supporting far-reaching freedom for the individual. But all upsides must by the laws of…

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On the Doorstep of EU Electoral Reform 

6 March 2023
Democracy 2022/Europe/Features/Politics

In the spring of 2022, the European Parliament voted in favour of a proposal to massively change EU elections by making 27 national elections into one. This reform, if implemented, could be a watershed moment for European democracy. And yet very few are aware of it.…

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Bokrecension – The Red Mirror av Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

1 March 2023
Democracy 2022/Europe/Politics/Reviews/Web exclusive

Putins breda stöd i Ryssland förklaras ofta med att landets befolkning har indoktrinerats med propaganda i generationer, att folket är passivt och inte törs forma och uttrycka egna åsikter av rädsla för att begå Orwellianska tankebrott. Det sägs att de inte känner sig berättigade till åsikter om saker som är…

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