Stephan Kyburz 🏛 Rules of the Game
@skyburz.bsky.social
I discuss democratic institutions. Rules of the Game podcast. Freedom through #PeoplePower. Political Economist. PhD. Ex LSE & Center for Global Development Listen to Rules of the Game https://open.spotify.com/show/34LlhCfwIcQ7ZmSLk2Kub3?si=994b99ebda5144
NEW BOOK 📕 critically analyzing the ethical rules applicable to EU institutions. Its basic premise is that what matters today is not only what public institutions do and who does it but also how it gets done. Read the introductory chapter papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We may be at a turning point. More than ever... 1) Ideas Matter 2) Organization Matters 3) Narrative Matters www.newamerica.org/the-thread/l...
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
"History moves in cycles, and we might soon see not just a reactive resistance to a destructive government but also reforms that could revitalize our democratic institutions, both locally and nationally." www.newamerica.org/the-thread/l...
Election Reform in America: A Path Forward Out of Political Discontent
Lee Drutman outlines how this winter of discontent for U.S. politics could spring seeds of renewal—if we mobilize voters and reform our elections.
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I thought the election-reform issue would be dead for a while, but apparently it’s not. Here’s what I’ve written on it. Federal: protectdemocracy.org/work/toward-... (open lists plus fusion) State/local: manhattan.institute/article/refo... (lists)
Oops! Turns out low referendum turnout isn’t about lazy voters… 😅 It’s parties slacking on mobilization! 🏛️ Study shows direct democracy needs hype too. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New Paper --> Would Le Pen's misuse of EU taxpayers' money and the Huawei scandal have been prevented with a more solid EU public integrity system? After 5 years of work an analysis of this new entity that I contributed to design but hasn't seen the light of the day papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Meanwhile, this also happened yesterday -> Roberts and Kavanaugh appear eager to blow up four decades of voting rights law www.vox.com/scotus/40559...
The Supreme Court appears determined to blow up its one good Voting Rights Act decision
Apparently, we can’t even trust these justices to follow their own very recent precedents.
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For 60 years, Floridians have used citizen initiatives to enact popular policies, like raising the minimum wage hikes and legalizing medical marijuana. New state bills seek to take that power away.
DeSantis and His Allies Go to War Against Direct Democracy
In a blatant power grab, the Florida governor and some legislators seek to remove one of the only remaining checks on their authority.
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The Argentine government is waging a fierce campaign of intimidation and persecution against social protest—oscillating between the echoes of dictatorship and the chilling reality of an Orwellian surveillance state. Any good news? Yes, it won’t work.
Interesting report using simulation to model the effects of vote leakage, ranking truncation, and candidature on minority representation under various PR systems for state legislative elections. www.newamerica.org/political-re...
Enhancing Representation in Massachusetts: The Case for Preferential and Proportional Electoral Systems
Alternative electoral systems—such as ranking systems or list-based proportional systems—could enhance representation in the state.
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👁️🗨️ Deliberative and direct democracy should not be seen as opposing forces but as complementary, offering a promising way to address the so-called ‘crisis’ of representative democracy, argues @nenadstojanovic.bsky.social You can read the full chapter here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
14 Citizens’ assemblies and direct democracy
14 Citizens’ assemblies and direct democracy was published in De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies on page 183.
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The rule of law, development, and democracy in Latin America need to be recognized in the realities of political economy instead of merely being produced by structural and institutional factors. #NewBook ed. Behrend & Whitehead My chapter: National referendums on natural resources OA rb.gy/qw31yu
Studying institutions for citizen participation (IPs) is neither micropolitics nor a 'minor matter' for idealistic academics. Analyzing the IPs in a given country expands our understanding of democracy, which is severely lacking in these times. This book does so for 🇲🇽 & 🇧🇷
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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Congress is preparing to vote on the SAVE Act, which has the potential to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.
Restricting the Freedom to Vote
The SAVE Act would be one of the worst voting laws in congressional history.
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Building on the seminal insights of Albert O. Hirschman, the Centre's research activities explore everyday practices of democratic participation and the changing forms of civic engagement that produce new configurations of "voice" and "exit". rb.gy/tm10v
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Building on the seminal insights of Albert O. Hirschman, the Centre's research activities explore everyday practices of democratic participation and the changing forms of civic engagement that produce...
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A fascinating book by Matt Ryan on why citizen participation succeeds or fails. The big question for political action, beyond the scope of this research is: what do we do when politicians' commitment is absent? @adrianbua.bsky.social @sbussu.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @brunoleipold.com
If the oligarchs are indeed inspired by science fiction, if anything it shows they read very little of it beyond their youth, and had very little diversity in their sci-fi media diet www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think.
The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump.
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Listen to our authors Steven Levitsky and @dziblatt.bsky.social explore the various types of countermajoritarian institutions and reflect on which are democracy-enhancing and which can potentially subvert democracy on the latest @revdem2020.bsky.social podcast episode! revdem.ceu.edu/2025/...
When Should the Majority Rule? – Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on Countermajoritarian Institutions and the Question of Democratic Resilience | Review of Democracy
In this conversation, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examine the various types of countermajoritarian institutions and reflect on which are democracy-enhancing and which can potentially subvert democracy. Levitsky and Ziblatt show the connections between the strong countermajoritarian features of the U.S. political system and its ongoing democratic backsliding. They also consider how the trade-offs between countermajoritarianism and democratic stability have played out across the globe.
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🏛️ Rules of the Game | Episode 46 📜 More Equitable Democracy with Colin Cole @colinjcole.bsky.social We discuss the important work of the U.S. organization More Equitable Democracy to advance racial equity by transforming electoral systems. Spotify: spoti.fi/40BI3NX Apple: apple.co/3CmmkA1
I actually believe we can get big transformative electoral reform here in the can-do United States... leedrutman.substack.com/p/how-did-am...
How did American democracy become a broken game without winners? And what should we do about it?
Support for democracy in America has fallen to alarming lows, even as voters desperately seek change. Proportional representation could re-energize our democracy
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🏛️ Rules of the Game | Episode 46 📜 More Equitable Democracy with Colin Cole @colinjcole.bsky.social We discuss the important work of the U.S. organization More Equitable Democracy to advance racial equity by transforming electoral systems. Spotify: spoti.fi/40BI3NX Apple: apple.co/3CmmkA1
The official 2024 Venezuelan election's results indicate that Maduro won, but the printed voting machine receipts collected by citizen volunteers point to a resounding victory by the opposition candidate, E. González. Electoral observation, what x? globalchallenges.ch/issue/16/leg...
Legitimacy under Pressure: The Role of Electoral Observation
Electoral monitoring plays a key role in many countries in ensuring that elections are held under fair conditions. Even when election monitors cannot prevent deception, they can still make a vital con...
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Auch die „Rules of the Game“ Folge (@skyburz.bsky.social) mit Ganghof ist sehr hörenswert. open.spotify.com/episode/4FFa...
Beyond presidentialism and parliamentarism with Steffen Ganghof
Rules of the Game – discussing democratic institutions · Episode
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I will never forget the violent attack on our Capitol four years ago today. Impunity for its blackshirts, and their leaders, is and will remain an atrocity against our democracy.
Video of the Capitol breach on January 6, 2021
YouTube video by CNBC Television
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