TRS.20.041 – Angels or villains? The role of civil society organisations in defending democracy or promoting autocracy
Route: Towards resilient societies
cluster question: 033 How robust is democracy, how much confidence does society have in it, and how can we make improvements in both cases?
In recent years, democracy appears to be in decline. Many democratic states have seen their democratic systems erode, as manifested […]
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TRS.20.019 – Everyday democracy: citizenship and leadership at work
Route: Towards resilient societies
cluster question: 033 How robust is democracy, how much confidence does society have in it, and how can we make improvements in both cases?
In the Netherlands, everyday interactions have impressively democratized over the past five decades. Neighbours negotiate the use of public spaces. […]
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TRS.20.001 – Explaining and engraining liberal democracy
Route: Towards resilient societies
cluster question: 033 How robust is democracy, how much confidence does society have in it, and how can we make improvements in both cases?
Robust liberal democracy requires robust knowledge of its fundamentals. Democratic backsliding in Europe has led scholarship to pay more attention […]
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BCC.20.007 – Democratizing facts, and fiction: patterns of influence on the internet and in social media (DEM_ITS)
Route: Between conflict and cooperation
cluster question: 033 How robust is democracy, how much confidence does society have in it, and how can we make improvements in both cases?
Digital public debates on all sorts of controversial policy issues are at the forefront of rethinking relationships between politics, science […]
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