📢 INVITATION PUBLIC EVENT!
How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted democracy in Poland?

Join REGROUP's free event in Krakow or follow the panel discussions from the livestream. 📽️

🗓️ Thursday, September 14
⏰ 5-6.30pm

Find more information: https://fb.me/e/5iBoxuU0p

We're looking forward to welcoming you!

#krakow #democraticbacksliding #law #covidpandemic #humanrights #horizonEU #horizoneurope

@politicalscience @politicaltheory @sociology

🗓️ ✅ Have you marked your calendar yet for September 14, at 5-6.30pm?

The #regroup public event, hosted by the Jagiellonian University, will be hybrid 📽️, so everyone can attend and learn about Covid-19 and the rule of law in Poland. 🇵🇱🦠

@politicalscience
@sociology

#pandemicpolitics #law #covid19 #democraticbacksliding

#Trump and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html #Populism #DemocraticBacksliding

On 12 Apr at #GIGA Berlin Office and online: Happy to have Joseph Asunka presenting results of #Afrobarometer surveys on the state of #democracy, #DemocraticBacksliding & #AuthoritarianTurn in #Africa as part of GIGA Speaker Series on #AfricanAffairs.

➡️ Register here: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/giga-speaker-series-on-african-affairs

The decision also comes amid concern over major #DemocraticBacksliding in the country, and a failure to address endemic #corruption, with political interference in the #judiciary, and a constitutional court that has been described as a "cannon aimed at Parliament", (5/8)🔽

The decision also comes amid concern over major #DemocraticBacksliding in the country, and a failure to address endemic #corruption, with political interference in the #judiciary, and a constitutional court that has been described as a "cannon aimed at Parliament", (6/8)🔽

The decision also comes amid concern over major #DemocraticBacksliding in the country, and a failure to address endemic #corruption, with political interference in the #judiciary, and a constitutional court that has been described as a "cannon aimed at Parliament", (5/7)🔽

Answering these questions is key to understanding the nature & magnitude of threats to #democracy today.
In an age of #democraticbacksliding, these arise primarily 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 - from elected politicians & their parties.

"What will history think of this decade? How will it remember it? I think that it’ll come to be thought of as the Age of Inflection. An age where inflection points were hit — and after that, certain forms of decline, if not collapse, began to become irreversible, gather a pace and momentum all their own. If it feels like the world’s out of control these days — welcome to the Age of Inflection."
#limitsToGrowth
#developmentIndex #climate #democraticBacksliding
#collapse

https://eand.co/our-civilization-just-hit-three-great-and-ominous-inflection-points-87dc5e0d77f0

RT @FES_ROCPE@twitter.com

That's a wrap on the Progressive Leadership Program 2022!

It was a pleasure discussing #European #security and #democraticbacksliding with these young leaders from Southeast Europe and our colleagues from @FESBgd@twitter.com!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FES_ROCPE/status/1595828162637832202

We studied the role of #polarization in #democraticbacksliding in #Poland and other #European #democracies.

Here's what we found:

1/9

After some lurking, I want to #introduce myself properly.

After training in #PoliticalTheory & #PoliticalPhilosophy, I'm now at the Institute of #PoliticalScience in #Leiden.

I've worked in the history of #PoliticalThought & #DemocraticTheory, looking at things like the secret ballot & #CriminalDisenfranchisement, as well as #Polisci stuff like #EU #DemocracyPromotion

My current work is on the #RuleOfLaw & #DemocraticBacksliding in the #EuropeanUnion

@politicalscience @philosophy @histodons