New book on democracy. #OpenAccess Seven Myths about Democracy by Jørgen Møller & Svend-Erik Skaaning, Routledge taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon.... Challenges (full or partial) misunderstandings about the meaning, trajectory, causes, and consequences of democracy.
This timely book challenges seven widespread misconceptions about democracy that continue to shape public and academic debates about its past, present, and
This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.
Pretty delighted with how Fargo voted for mayor (bonus that he's an NSDU polisci grad): www.facebook.com/share/v/1DBC...
Data visualization is my passion
Dr. Damien P. Williams is under the vast indifference of heaven
Dan Pemstein
Harry Kane has put together a Ballon D'Or-caliber season while playing 771 games of online chess and improving his rapid rating by 280 points
His Bayern teammate Michael Olise, second in the BDO odds, has played 854 games and improved by 344 points
Their accounts have never played each other
📣 New #FirstView Notes from the Field 📝
In "USAID Bureau on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance", @mlkrook.bsky.social interviews Julie Denham, Rebecca Gordon, and other members of the gender team at DRG.
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gendersky polisky
My Callais take: we should view the politics behind this decision through the "colorblind" lens - a backlash frame palatable to normal people. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
John Muller
John Muller
New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...
Following our April 29 announcement, we believe it's important to be transparent about the context that led to the decision. We want to explain, where we can, why this was made on such short notice, only days before we were set to host RightsCon.
Read: www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...
Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData
Matt Scherer on what I've been telling journalists for some time now: one of the biggest AI harms that we are staring down is the popping of the AI bubble, and the attentive harms we'll be seeing for working class folks.
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Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
