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💡 Join our new Research Network on 'The Sciences of the Democracies' founded by @JeanPaulRGagnon 🦋 🤩 Fun Fact: This group is developing the world's first open-access, AI-supported, digital encyclopaedia of the "democracies" 💥 Find out more 👉 ecpr.eu/Group/sciences…
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"Despite improvement in the diversity of elected representatives, most parliaments have yet to achieve numerical equality." @karenceliscelis & @profsarahchilds @Equal2030 @nicolembarga @aytchellesse @ajgarcialive @khamis_mayanja @CurleyPollly @MarkHazard2020 @EngenderHealth
"Even when #parliaments do enjoy diverse elected representatives, it does not necessarily engender greater attention to minority groups' concerns" @karenceliscelis & @profsarahchilds @RepJournal @Refugees_EU @UNFPA_Nordic @GERMANYonUN @LuxembourgNATO @rebootrepresent @UNFPA_DC
"Cooperative socialism is more bottom-up, generative of collective consciousness and variety." @lukemartell @BlackRadAnarcho @XxchanC @olly_gough_ @MisterWillow_ @NickCooperative @1854plus1984 @Mythowish @MrAdamBooth @Tori_TLCR @VSNRadio @Hexpatriot @analytichegel @eshear
"[L]essons for socialism are to be more democratic and liberal, to allow diversity, and to grow publicly minded consciousness" - @lukemartell @GVAGrad_AHDC @DamonSilvers @LibArtsNdCrafts @SomPundit @politicsawards @COE_Tirana @tobetechnology_ @stateinnovation @xn_ary @SSIReview
🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.94 One of the most marginalised groups in contemporary democracies is children under 18 years of age. @ProfJohnWall argues that responding to #DemocraticDecline in our time must include giving all children the right to vote 🗳️ bit.ly/3LXrMeI
"Why should suffrage be 'universal and equal'? It is because democracies are meant to respond to the concerns of those they govern." - @ProfJohnWall @ElieFoubert @AnthemSimon @PoliticsBridge @ubimaldives @Dispatch_DD @CohereAI @HazemMalhas @BahaiFriends @bheijn67 @binkssake_
"Adult populations and corporate bottom lines, for example, skew political decision-making toward the immediate here and now. Ageless voting would pressure representatives to think longer-term." @ProfJohnWall @artandfox @julesfurious @RockTheVote @brunosmom0408 @Vote16Canada
"As in all previous suffrage movements, some feel that new groups gaining the vote means existing voters lose out. But this assumption always proves false." - @ProfJohnWall @DrSheilaHanlon @anMheanmhuir @VoterEngagement @OpenDoorAdvisor @rp_griffin @DrMissKecia @suzannemrivera
🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.95 James Tully, Keith Cherry, @artsofdenial & Pablo Ouziel explain how different conceptions of #democracy can be grouped into 'families of democracies' which can 'join hands' to establish an ecosocial succession that benefits all bit.ly/439Ixcf
"By perceiving, enacting and integrating democratic diversity, we can 'join hands' with human and other-than-human relatives" - Tully, Cherry, Owen, and Ouziel @BaxterJanella @amusejanetmason @areikm @malatis8 @Dangerfox @UniofGreenwich @jeffvandermeer @Film_London @tnatw
🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.96 @AnastasiaKavada's concept of 'project democracy' centres democracy around action, organisation & implementation. She argues this offers an understanding of democracy that goes beyond practices discussed in academic literature bit.ly/45nkM2v
"Indigenous community-based democracies on Turtle Island (North America) are among the oldest democracies." - Tully, Cherry, @artsofdenial, Ouziel @KulkarniManju @bmchsd @Jiaminicbokisu2 @OCEIA_SF @PackforaPurpose @AsiaSocietyIC @_Anyalla @MentalHealth_MA @GHS @CICan_ESP_TZ
"#Democracy demands that we assert ourselves in improving our communities while remaining open to disagreement about how that community ought to be improved." - @scottrstroud @ColetteColfer @gALeN_Live @Juergen_Maier @Pabloite @up_bles @BobBorsley @NimeshReshamiya @pauloCanning
