by jpitney | Oct 29, 2021 | Democracy, Public Opinion
Richard Wike and colleagues report on a survey of 17 advanced economies surveyed this spring by Pew Research Center: A median of 57% across 17 publics say they are satisfied with the way their democracy is working. But while views of democracy are relatively positive...
by jpitney | Oct 8, 2021 | Democracy, Journalism, Journalists
Roger Cohen at NY Times: The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov, comes at a time of growing assaults on a free press across the world, as authoritarian governments extend their reach and the slogan of “fake news” is used...
by jpitney | Aug 20, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Democracy, Insurrection
At USA Today, Tom Nichols writes about his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy. [Our] democracy now practically must run on autopilot independently of a public that is happily and willfully ignorant of the issues and wants nothing to do with the dreary business of...
by jpitney | Aug 11, 2021 | Biden, Democracy, Foreign Policy
From the White House: The President has said that the challenge of our time is to demonstrate that democracies can deliver by improving the lives of their own people and by addressing the greatest problems facing the wider world… In keeping this commitment,...
by jpitney | Jul 10, 2021 | Deliberation, Democracy
Nathan Gardels at Noema: “The growing gap between the governed and their governments cannot be filled by our representative systems alone,” Kalypso Nicolaïdis writes in Noema this week. “What we need is a more continuous dynamic, a permanent commitment to democratic...
by jpitney | Jul 6, 2021 | Civility, Democracy, Elections, Insurrection
Benjy Sarlin at NBC: There’s no legal avenue for Trump to reverse the 2020 results. But a half-dozen scholars who study democracy and election laws told NBC News they are increasingly worried that 2024 could be a repeat of 2020, only with a party further remade in the...
