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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Aug 15

Here is a working link ! docs.google.com/forms/d/1rpZ...

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Aug 15

Annual themes:
education and citizens’ democratic engagement

crisis, governance, and development

democracy and technology

democracy and climate

democratic backsliding, resilience, and resistance

media, political communications, political psychology, and democracy

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Aug 15

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:

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jun 18

'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.

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Add your selection to your basket and use code 102385 at check out.

Front cover of Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience by Bunce et al.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · May 27

'Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience' by Bunce, @tompepinsky.com, @beattyriedl.bsky.social & Roberts.

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A comprehensive, cross-regional comparative study of democratic backsliding and resiliency around the world.

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · May 18

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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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · May 13

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.

www.brookings.edu

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 30

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...

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European Democracy Hub @europeandemocracyhub.epd.eu · Apr 29

Contents:

▪️ Types of Democratic Resilience
by Rachel Beatty Riedl (@beattyriedl.bsky.social), Jennifer McCoy (@jennifermccoy.bsky.social), Kenneth Roberts, Paul Friesen

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▪️ From Electoral U-turns to Re-democratisation
by Nic Cheeseman (@fromagehomme.bsky.social), Licia Cianetti

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 27

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...

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Apr 19

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Apr 9

#50year #thirdwave @jodemocracy.bsky.social
See the compilations of reflections on 50 years of the third wave of democracy in JOD, with @dnsltr.bsky.social & Scott Mainwaring

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Apr 9

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...

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Carnegie Democracy @carnegiedcg.bsky.social · Apr 9

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.

goodauthority.org

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Jennifer McCoy @jennifermccoy.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Mar 31

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.

goodauthority.org

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Mar 22

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...

Democratic Backsliding: How It Happens and How It Can Be Countered – AAPSS

www.aapss.org

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Mar 22

With excellent cast studies of key countries for lessons : Malawi , Poland, Hungary, Turkey, India, Ecuador etc

kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · Mar 21

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

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Mar 7

Yes I will send you the link !

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Mar 5

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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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Jan 16

W @dnsltr.bsky.social et al!

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Jan 16

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

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Jan 16

Feel this very deeply! Wishing you well for the semester !!! 🙏🙏🙏

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Jan 6

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...

IPPA - List of Panels

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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · Jan 2

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...

news.cornell.edu

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