Review of Democracy

🎙️ In our latest podcast, @marthasjones_ explains the historical roots of birthright citizenship and the current U.S. administration’s attempt to undermine it. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/42mxmtt4

🎙️ In our new podcast, Xu Guoqi traces the changing meanings of “China” and “Chineseness,” and reflects on the relationship between science, democracy, and governance in contemporary China. 🇨🇳🇨🇳 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/32dhdbcs

✍️ Democracy research and democracy support must develop methodologies for understanding silences around political issues, while avoiding paternalistic tones, Teppo Eskelinen argues in his op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3ydyp6k8

✍️ To answer the question whether Hungary has been a democracy, we must look beyond data collection and observation and consider the deeper foundations of democracy and the values it ought to represent, @KapelnerZsolt argues.🇭🇺🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read his op-ed now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y4jdaa2k

🎙️ In our new podcast, @KarolinaLendak and Lucija Balikic discuss their research project, which traces how states, churches, and communities sought to regulate intimacy long before they regulated borders. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/622k9ykv

🎙️ In the latest episode of our podcast series produced in partnership with the @JoDemocracy, Susan Stokes discusses the reasons behind the increase in democratic erosion and possible counter measures. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/wrzww8ju

✍️ Understanding democratic resilience requires studying how political identities are built but it is a question the backsliding literature has left largely unasked, @KavyanjaliK writes in her article. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/pr72tyy4

✍️ The two books do more than refine our vocabulary. They help reorient the analysis of the contemporary right and expose strategic dilemmas that any opposition will have to confront, Kristof Szombati writes in his double review. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/34dz823k

🎙️ In the new episode of our podcast series produced in collaboration with the @JoDemocracy, @JoseMoralesA discusses the challenges of democratic transition in Venezuela. 🇻🇪🇻🇪 🎧 Listen to it: 👉 tinyurl.com/3ut8hpnt

✍️ The book is “highly accessible for anyone interested in the concept of Europe or in expanding their understanding of the historical influences that shaped the present society,” Raluca Pop writes in her review. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4atn25yp

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Filip Milačić discusses the influence of nationalism on current processes of democratic backsliding and proposes counterstrategies. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ycxaus55

✍️ Costa Rica’s “Third Republic” is not just a political slogan—it is a narrative that turns accountability into obstruction and reframes democratic oversight as a relic of a failed past, Jesús Guzmán-Castillo writes in his op-ed. 🇨🇷🇨🇷 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2peam33k

🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in partnership with the @JoDemocracy, @jasonanastas and @LIANJie_Jason discuss the new challenges and opportunities for repression that AI poses. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/575pt8vs

✍️ Hungary’s election shows that electoral autocracies can be more vulnerable than they appear and be defeated when democratic opposition forces adapt strategically and coordinate across sectors, @VeghZsuzsanna writes in her op-ed. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/jxxyw9p9

🎙️ In our new podcast, Diána Vonnák discusses the recent past and present state of relations between Hungary and Ukraine and explores how prevalent Hungarian perspectives on Ukraine may be characterized and contextualized. 🇭🇺🇺🇦 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y8b8j3n5

✍️ In Argentina, the rise of the radical right is not just revisiting the past—it is transforming transitional justice into a central terrain of political struggle, @GaboPereiraGP writes in his op-ed. 🇦🇷🇦🇷 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/49ah7xpr

🎙️ In the new episode of our podcast series produced in collaboration with @JoDemocracy, Pepper Culpepper reframes populism as a differentiated and politically consequential phenomenon rather than a uniformly anti-democratic force. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2xtehz6b

✍️ In his second op-ed about the threats to US midterm elections, Neil H. Buchanan focuses on how cast votes might be prevented from counting. 🇺🇸🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4nw4mnzw

✍️ In his op-ed, Neil H. Buchanan analyzes the threats undermining midterm elections in the US, focusing on the potential of citizens being prevented from registering and registered citizens being stopped from voting. 🇺🇸🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2txhd6xr

✍️ The recent experience of Poland, which has been struggling to overcome the consequences of its own autocratic episode, might help Hungary to navigate the risks of re-democratization, @MariaSkora argues in her op-ed. 🇵🇱🇭🇺 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8krrhd