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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 11h

✍️ Andrej Babiš won the Czech elections as liberal rivals preached democracy but ignored inequality. @mariher.bsky.social and Kateřina Smejkalová argue that this moralizing stance helped fuel the far right’s rise and deepened democratic malaise. 🇨🇿🇨🇿🗳️

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 1d

✍️ Moldova’s latest parliamentary elections, hailed as a pro-European victory, reveal deeper tensions beneath the surface, Anastasia Felcher writes in her op-ed. 🇲🇩🇲🇩🗳️

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 2d

🎙️ In the latest episode of our special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Jennifer Cyr and @fromagehomme.bsky.social reflect on why projects of re-democratization after periods of authoritarian rule often fail in the long term.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 5d

✍️ Being considered the architect of the BRICS group, China successfully blends both far-left and far-right elements to design a hybrid ideological identity, aligned with its worldview, Giullia Neagu writes in her op-ed. 🇨🇳🇨🇳

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 6d

✍️🔖 “Gadson’s detailed case studies reveal the fragility of constitutional processes and the lengths to which elites will go to preserve power,” Neil Gandhi writes in his book review.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 8d

✍️ While Indonesia’s government dismissed recent protests, @arsisto.bsky.social argues in his op-ed that they are a powerful, decentralized movement with deep historical roots. 🇮🇩🇮🇩

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 9d

🎙️ In our latest podcast, @fratrupia.bsky.social and Marina Simakova discuss the ideological co-optation of Antonio Gramsci’s ideas by the contemporary (far-)right.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 12d

✍️ In her op-ed, Saumya Aanchal analyzes how the Indian ruling party has been trying to reinterpret history, portraying India as an exclusive Hindu civilization. 🇮🇳🇮🇳

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 13d

🎙️ In the second part of our podcast, @aborges75.bsky.social, Ryan Lloyd, and Gabriel Vommaro explore how voters’ attitudes, cultural conflicts, and deepening polarization are reshaping right-wing politics across Latin America.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 14d

✍️🔖 “This is a work that transcends genres: it is part memoir, part sentimental treatise, and part literary experiment,” Manuel Torres writes in his review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 15d

✍️ In his op-ed, Jaap Hoeksma calls on the EU to defend its constitutional foundations and to embrace and promote its functioning as a European democracy. 🇪🇺🇪🇺

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 16d

🎙️ In our new podcast, @aborges75.bsky.social, Ryan Lloyd, and Gabriel Vommaro explore how Latin America’s right has been reshaped since the early 2000s, focusing on parties, movements, and leaders redefining right-wing politics in the region.-

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 19d

✍️ In her op-ed, Elize Soer looks at the “mirror world,” where powerful groups co-opt the rhetoric and aura of resistance to oppression while inflicting atrocities on others.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 20d

✍️ In his op-ed, @nicholasrl.bsky.social argues why a liberal democratic conception of the separation of powers requires the judiciary to scrutinize the government’s acts more rigorously.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 21d

🎙️ In our new podcast, @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social analyzes different narratives on migration and the role they play in policymaking, as well as the rise of right-wing populist actors across Europe.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 22d

✍️🔖 The book should provoke skeptics of judicial power to reconsider their assumptions, for it demonstrates that the question is not whether courts can matter, but under what conditions they do, Gabriel Pereira writes in his review.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 23d

🎙️ In our new podcast, Janine Silga analyzes the colonial roots of the European migration system and discusses possible ways to overcome coloniality in EU law. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🧑‍⚖️

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 27d

🎙️ In the new episode of our special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @semuhi.bsky.social and @lucanway.bsky.social reflect on capitalism’s enduring imperfections while presenting it as a plausible force for democratic change.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 28d

✍️ Europe’s ‘extraordinary solidarity’ with displaced Ukrainians in 2022 is increasingly being replaced by a politics of conditionality, and refugees are increasingly framed as workers expected to prove their worth through employment, Natalia Dziadyk writes. 🇺🇦🇺🇦

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 29d

✍️🔖 “Despite leaving the reader hungry for more at times, [the book] offers a compelling account of the unique beast in the history of interstate relations which is the EU,” Jan Mlynarczyk writes in his review. 🇪🇺🇪🇺

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · Sep 8

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Dan Edelstein focuses on providing a new understanding of the concept of revolution and recovers the overlooked role of Polybius in shaping the constitutional imagination of early modern Europe.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎙️ In the second part of this podcast, Maciej Kisilowski lays out his proposals for a new constitutional settlement for Poland, aimed at addressing the roots and consequences of the severe polarization of the Polish society. 🇵🇱🇵🇱

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · Sep 3

👥 The Budapest Forum, co-organized by the Municipality of Budapest, Political Capital, and us returns to discuss the most pressing issues facing citizens of democratic and nominally democratic countries.

📅 Sept 17

Details and registration:
👉 budapestforum.org

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · Sep 3

✍️🔖 While the instrumentalization of law is hardly an unknown phenomenon, Catalina Smulovitz unpacks how this process has developed in Argentina and how its dynamics resonate across Latin American democracies, Gabriel Pereira writes in his review.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · Sep 2

✍️ In his letter, @moritzraykowski.bsky.social seeks to draw attention to the growing tendency among voters to label political decisions and practices as democratic or undemocratic based on ad hoc judgments.

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