Review of Democracy
@revdem2020.bsky.social
The online journal of the CEU Democracy Institute, to discuss and develop solutions to the challenges to democracy worldwide. Follow us and stay connected!
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🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Maya Tudor argues that today’s decline in trust in democracy stems from misconceptions about its achievements.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Maya Tudor argues that today’s decline in trust in democracy stems from misconceptions about its achievements.
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✍️ Peru’s democracy is eroding not through aspiring autocrats but through exhaustion. Entrenched informality hollows out authority and turns governance into a marketplace of deals rather than a system of rules, @eljorobado.bsky.social argues in his op-ed. 🇵🇪🇵🇪
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
✍️ Peru’s democracy is eroding not through aspiring autocrats but through exhaustion. Entrenched informality hollows out authority and turns governance into a marketplace of deals rather than a system of rules, @eljorobado.bsky.social argues in his op-ed. 🇵🇪🇵🇪
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🎙️ In our new podcast, @fholt.bsky.social discusses the evolution of the Democratic Socialists of America and to what extent it is bound to large cities or can address a broader electorate.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, @fholt.bsky.social discusses the evolution of the Democratic Socialists of America and to what extent it is bound to large cities or can address a broader electorate.
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🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance.
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✍️ In his op-ed, Neil H. Buchanan argues that newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will face relentless efforts from across the political spectrum to bring him down.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
✍️ In his op-ed, Neil H. Buchanan argues that newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will face relentless efforts from across the political spectrum to bring him down.
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✍️ Argentina’s midterm elections tested not only the government’s ability to sustain its reform agenda but also citizens’ growing preference for results over ideology, Lara Goyburu writes in her op-ed. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🗳️
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November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
✍️ Argentina’s midterm elections tested not only the government’s ability to sustain its reform agenda but also citizens’ growing preference for results over ideology, Lara Goyburu writes in her op-ed. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🗳️
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✍️ Southeast Asia shows how democracy’s openness can be weaponized. Flexible illiberalism, the art of using democratic institutions to pursue illiberal ends, reveals how democracy endures not by collapsing, but by changing hands, Aqida Salma argues in her op-ed.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
✍️ Southeast Asia shows how democracy’s openness can be weaponized. Flexible illiberalism, the art of using democratic institutions to pursue illiberal ends, reveals how democracy endures not by collapsing, but by changing hands, Aqida Salma argues in her op-ed.
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🎙️ In the new podcast of our series co-produced with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley discuss the ways in which AI could strain, or even crack, the foundations of democracies.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🎙️ In the new podcast of our series co-produced with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley discuss the ways in which AI could strain, or even crack, the foundations of democracies.
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👉 tinyurl.com/4t2z3p3c
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✍️ The higher education reform announced by Georgia’s government is a decisive move to bring one of the country’s last relatively plural arenas entirely under political authority, Sandro Tabatadze argues in his op-ed. 🇬🇪🇬🇪🧑🏫
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October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
✍️ The higher education reform announced by Georgia’s government is a decisive move to bring one of the country’s last relatively plural arenas entirely under political authority, Sandro Tabatadze argues in his op-ed. 🇬🇪🇬🇪🧑🏫
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Can moral emotions help address polarization, or do they make it worse? 🤔
🎙️ In our latest podcast, Zsolt Boda discusses @mores-project.bsky.social exploring moralized political identities and democratic trust.
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#MORESresearch
🎙️ In our latest podcast, Zsolt Boda discusses @mores-project.bsky.social exploring moralized political identities and democratic trust.
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#MORESresearch
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Can moral emotions help address polarization, or do they make it worse? 🤔
🎙️ In our latest podcast, Zsolt Boda discusses @mores-project.bsky.social exploring moralized political identities and democratic trust.
🎧 Listen to it here:
👉 tinyurl.com/2tteujsv
#MORESresearch
🎙️ In our latest podcast, Zsolt Boda discusses @mores-project.bsky.social exploring moralized political identities and democratic trust.
🎧 Listen to it here:
👉 tinyurl.com/2tteujsv
#MORESresearch
✍️ On election day in the Netherlands, Niels Graaf argues in his op-ed that the previous government attempted to undermine the rule of law and examines the risks that may lie ahead. 🇳🇱🇳🇱🗳️
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October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
✍️ On election day in the Netherlands, Niels Graaf argues in his op-ed that the previous government attempted to undermine the rule of law and examines the risks that may lie ahead. 🇳🇱🇳🇱🗳️
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✍️ Through dialogues between literature, film, and visual arts, Imre József Balázs traces how László Krasznahorkai’s work transforms despair into a haunting affirmation of art’s enduring power. 📖📖
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October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
✍️ Through dialogues between literature, film, and visual arts, Imre József Balázs traces how László Krasznahorkai’s work transforms despair into a haunting affirmation of art’s enduring power. 📖📖
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👉 tinyurl.com/kwk2mkyz
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🎙️ In our new podcast, @rachelmyrick.bsky.social discusses how extreme partisan polarization threatens not only domestic governance but also global stability and argues that it affects foreign policymaking.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, @rachelmyrick.bsky.social discusses how extreme partisan polarization threatens not only domestic governance but also global stability and argues that it affects foreign policymaking.
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✍️ In her op-ed, Laura-Stella Enonchong explains why Cameroonian voters face an electoral system designed to undermine the democratic will of the people. 🇨🇲🇨🇲🗳️
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October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
✍️ In her op-ed, Laura-Stella Enonchong explains why Cameroonian voters face an electoral system designed to undermine the democratic will of the people. 🇨🇲🇨🇲🗳️
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🎙️ In our new podcast, @alexdukalskis.bsky.social and
@cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social argue that the project to spread liberalism around the world has caused a snapback, in which authoritarian regimes aim to capture and repurpose the actors, tools, and norms.
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@cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social argue that the project to spread liberalism around the world has caused a snapback, in which authoritarian regimes aim to capture and repurpose the actors, tools, and norms.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, @alexdukalskis.bsky.social and
@cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social argue that the project to spread liberalism around the world has caused a snapback, in which authoritarian regimes aim to capture and repurpose the actors, tools, and norms.
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/aa6cs3vz
@cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social argue that the project to spread liberalism around the world has caused a snapback, in which authoritarian regimes aim to capture and repurpose the actors, tools, and norms.
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🔜 Join us on Friday for this book discussion!
🗓️ Oct 24, 7pm CET
🔴📹 Online on YouTube
🗣️ Stefan Dorondel
🗣️ Luminita Gatejel
🗣️ @gerdu.bsky.social
🗣️ Cosmin Koszor-Codrea
🗣️ Adrian Matus
Details:
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🗓️ Oct 24, 7pm CET
🔴📹 Online on YouTube
🗣️ Stefan Dorondel
🗣️ Luminita Gatejel
🗣️ @gerdu.bsky.social
🗣️ Cosmin Koszor-Codrea
🗣️ Adrian Matus
Details:
👉 tinyurl.com/bdaes63j
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🔜 Join us on Friday for this book discussion!
🗓️ Oct 24, 7pm CET
🔴📹 Online on YouTube
🗣️ Stefan Dorondel
🗣️ Luminita Gatejel
🗣️ @gerdu.bsky.social
🗣️ Cosmin Koszor-Codrea
🗣️ Adrian Matus
Details:
👉 tinyurl.com/bdaes63j
🗓️ Oct 24, 7pm CET
🔴📹 Online on YouTube
🗣️ Stefan Dorondel
🗣️ Luminita Gatejel
🗣️ @gerdu.bsky.social
🗣️ Cosmin Koszor-Codrea
🗣️ Adrian Matus
Details:
👉 tinyurl.com/bdaes63j
✍️ Moscow offers cheaper access to energy, finance, and payment rails, but not the investment and rules that make a real order, Evgeny Romanovskiy writes in his op-ed. 🇷🇺🇷🇺
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October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
✍️ Moscow offers cheaper access to energy, finance, and payment rails, but not the investment and rules that make a real order, Evgeny Romanovskiy writes in his op-ed. 🇷🇺🇷🇺
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🎙️ In our new podcast, Anna Dobrowolska argues that the conventional narrative of state oppression versus societal resistance proves to be inadequate when examining Poland’s sexual revolution. 🇵🇱🇵🇱
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October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, Anna Dobrowolska argues that the conventional narrative of state oppression versus societal resistance proves to be inadequate when examining Poland’s sexual revolution. 🇵🇱🇵🇱
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✍️ The justification for the Nobel Prize for László Krasznahorkai, “his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,” both makes and misses the point spectacularly, Peter Nemes argues in his op-ed.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
✍️ The justification for the Nobel Prize for László Krasznahorkai, “his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,” both makes and misses the point spectacularly, Peter Nemes argues in his op-ed.
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/49vk8fut
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/49vk8fut
🎙️ In our latest podcast, Hannes Grandits and Katharina Tyran discuss how borders are created by conflicts and then changed by clerks, soldiers, smugglers, and villagers trying to make sense of a new world order.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🎙️ In our latest podcast, Hannes Grandits and Katharina Tyran discuss how borders are created by conflicts and then changed by clerks, soldiers, smugglers, and villagers trying to make sense of a new world order.
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👉 tinyurl.com/bdhwnb85
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✍️ “Long considered as one of Europe’s most formidable writers, Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s winning of the Nobel Prize reveals the long process that writers from East-Central Europe need for recognition,” Zsuzsanna Varga writes.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
✍️ “Long considered as one of Europe’s most formidable writers, Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s winning of the Nobel Prize reveals the long process that writers from East-Central Europe need for recognition,” Zsuzsanna Varga writes.
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🎙️ In our latest podcast, Mohammad Ali Kadivar explores the urgent and timely question of popular protests amid global democratic backsliding and reveals underexplored dynamics at the heart of democratic transitions.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🎙️ In our latest podcast, Mohammad Ali Kadivar explores the urgent and timely question of popular protests amid global democratic backsliding and reveals underexplored dynamics at the heart of democratic transitions.
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👉 tinyurl.com/4epyh7j8
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✍️ The problem with sustainability plans lies not in the strategic intentions but the very language of these agendas, which build invisible walls that decide from the start who and what is excluded, Deborah Martinez Aguilar writes in her op-ed. ♻️♻️
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October 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
✍️ The problem with sustainability plans lies not in the strategic intentions but the very language of these agendas, which build invisible walls that decide from the start who and what is excluded, Deborah Martinez Aguilar writes in her op-ed. ♻️♻️
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✍️ Bolivia will face its first-ever presidential runoff. The collapse of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) is a crucial factor behind this, alongside the country’s economic crisis and the reorganization of the right, Gabriel Pereira argues in his op-ed. 🇧🇴🇧🇴🗳️
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October 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
✍️ Bolivia will face its first-ever presidential runoff. The collapse of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) is a crucial factor behind this, alongside the country’s economic crisis and the reorganization of the right, Gabriel Pereira argues in his op-ed. 🇧🇴🇧🇴🗳️
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✍️ 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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October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
✍️ 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. 🇨🇿🇨🇿🗳️
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/bdfpeu3v
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