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Eric Schliesser on democracy, its challenges, risks and imperfections, and the Lincoln school of democratic theory on the value of competition as a taming force on opportunism, corruption and a source of feedback, all under heavily imperfect conditions.
Whither Democracy?
At the end of March, the editor at European Journal of Political Economy wrote me to inform me that the manuscript EJPE-D-24-00221R1, which is a paper I co-authored with Nick Cowen and Aris Trantidis ...
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April 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
My scholarship from fifteen years ago on Building an Authoritarian Regime is unfortunately getting real, and the mechanism I described for managing democracy is in operation now.
Venting at Democrats and Fearing Trump, Liberal Donors Pull Back Cash
Demoralized donors are frustrated with Democrats’ failings and worried about retribution from the president. Their frugality has left liberal groups struggling to fight the new administration.
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February 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Proud to have contributed to the debate on the future and resilience of democracy for fifteen years now.
Aris Trantidis on LinkedIn: Proud to have contributed to the debate on the future and resilience of…
Proud to have contributed to the debate on the future and resilience of democracy for fifteen years now. Starting in in 2007 with the "The economic…
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February 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Reposted
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgy-... - Hollis's story - learn what it's like to study International Relations at the University of Lincoln
BA (Hons) International Relations | Student Story | University of Lincoln
YouTube video by University of Lincoln
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February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Democracies don't die because of citizens are polarized.

Democracies die when when the business elite is co-opted.

This is what my research has shown, unlike the existingliterature.
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Let the rest of the world gain from trade with one another while Americans are trying their own bananas
February 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"National capitalism" is the road to authoritarianism at home and war across the world
February 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Yes, it does matter if an AI programme could later erase entire works, publications, and books, art and theories, and ideologies that a regime might deem subversive. We may reach a time where what we know about the past and present will be manicured and controlled by governments.
January 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Trump is attacking the very institutional architecture that the US made to become hegemonic.
January 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
As a professor of politics, I never thought my paper Hayek vs. Trump: The Radical Right’s Road to Serfdom (with N Cowen) would become reality. The road to authoritarianism isn’t just populism—it’s the co-option of business. I thought we were done with this in 2020 but here it comes again. #Democracy
January 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The problem with many current power holders is that they don't even keep up appearances anymore.

Historically, this was usually a recipe for trouble, but they simple don't care. With the available technology, they have mastered the process of manufacturing beliefs and crushing dissent
January 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM