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The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st. Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...

“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...

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. Apply and share: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

'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. cup.org/3STKoPB Add your selection to your basket and use code 102385 at check out.

'Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience' by Bunce, @tompepinsky.com, @beattyriedl.bsky.social & Roberts. 📚 cup.org/4jESqXD 📚 A comprehensive, cross-regional comparative study of democratic backsliding and resiliency around the world.

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

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...

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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

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.

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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 - ▪️ 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...

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...

Opinion | What Is Lost When We Scare Away Foreign Students

The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.

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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...

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.

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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.

goodauthority.org

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...

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.

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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

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Want to know more about how democratic backsliding happens and how to counter it? See this fully open access issue of AAPSS, co-edited by @beattyriedl.bsky.social, Jennifer McCoy, Ken Roberts, and Murat Somer: journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/712/1

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

Democratic Mobilizing: Comparative Responses to Backsliding Threats

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

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). www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/i...

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...

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...

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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...

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?

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Working on #migration? In a commentary response to the World Bank’s World Development Report on Migration, a Cornell team published a series of reactions to take up global mobility, rights, human development & socio-economic thriving. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

World development report 2023 review forum: Introduction

Click on the article title to read more.

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Applications for “Politics, Markets, and Governance in Africa”, a conference in honor of Nicolas van de Walle. Abstracts due March 1. Please join @cornellupress.bsky.social w the Center on Global Democracy, the Institute of African Development, & Govt Dept new.express.adobe.com/webpage/VYps...

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The year of elections is wrapping up - here are some takes on significant elections globally @JOD www.journalofdemocracy.org/news-and-upd...

The Elections That Mattered Most in 2024 | Journal of Democracy

The “year of elections” is entering its final stretch, and the contests of 2024 have run the gamut. We saw landslides, charades, and — in democratic and authoritarian settings alike — a fair number of...

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Exciting work on #democracy out of the new Center on Global Democracy at Cornell!

We’re looking back on 2023 and forward to 2024 in this week’s episode! @dadakim.bsky.social and @beattyriedl.bsky.social talk about elections, democracy, and more on the continent. Next week, we’re excited to introduce you to our new non-resident fellows! www.ufahamuafrica.com/2024/02/03/e...

Kwadwo Owusu, professor of geography and resource development at @ Univ of Ghana, is our guest this week for a conversation on climate and society and public policy around environmental health and well-being. www.ufahamuafrica.com/2023/12/09/e...

Possibility is real and high that US becomes a dictatorship. Voters & politicians both have the possibility to forge a democratic path, but it would require concerted action for ordinary people, & foregoing business as usual/maximal gain for those at the top. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.

There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?

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#jobalert - postdoc opportunity at Cornell re #Urban #Climate #Equity Join us ! Post-Doctoral Associate in Just and Equitable Cities apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f... Post-Doctoral Associate in Urban Climate Mitigation and Adaptation apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...