How democracies grow up: countries with too many young people may not have a fighting chance at freedom.(ARGUMENT)Cincotta, Richard P
For example, the mid-18th-century democracies were designed under the assumption that both travel and communications were hard. Does it still make sense for all of us living in the same place to organize every few years and choose one of us to go to a big room far away and create laws ...
Political risk consultancy Eurasia Group listed "Divided States of America" as one of the top risks for 2023 in a recent report, saying the United States "remains one of the most politically polarized and dysfunctional of the world's advanced industrial democracies." The 118th House speaker was...
In this last conceptualization, property-owning democracies may be socialist or not. When people’s shares of capital are widely but non-equally distributed or they are tradable, the system is not socialist. In any case, both approaches are consistent with what follows. The term “major means ...
Like the majority of other Western democracies have what is called a strong social safety net. They have good social services. They have universal health care. I went and visited some friends in Sweden about 12 years ago, and I was blown away. I was really blown away with how well taken...
education free for its citizens at all levels, subsidized housing, utilities, entertainment, and even subsidized food programs. Together, these social programs are meant to compensate for the low salaries of Cuban workers, making them better off than their international counterparts in many ot...
However, when behaviors intentionally harm others or threaten democratic foundations, they cross a line. Many democracies have responded with regulations, and platforms have been reminded of their responsibilities. That’s the legal side. There's also the avenue of mediaeducation, which can be effect...
Every Official Dinner has a greater reason for being. State dinners, for example, are either an opportunity to reward emerging democracies or strengthen old friendships. The Official Dinner was intended to show the students an elegant evening in Washington—part of the four-week intensive summer pr...
I know many people there that seem to thrive but it was a challenging environment for me and some of my team. It can be tricky to balance the need to “deliver” and make the changes that you’ve been hired to do, when the runway to build up the social capital needed to call out...
It turns out that two factors were highly predictive. The first was whether a country’s government was an anocracy. These types of governments are also called partial or weak democracies, illiberal democracies, electoral autocracies or hybrid regimes, meaning they have some combination of democr...