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Review of Democracy

@revdem2020.bsky.social
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The online journal of @ceudeminst.bsky.social, to discuss and develop solutions to the challenges to democracy worldwide. Follow us and stay connected! 🔗 revdem.ceu.edu

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 23h
✍️ Jeet Pattanaik argues that India should build on its own strengths of public digital infrastructure, borrow from the EU AI Act’s risk-based design, learn from Europe’s stumbles, and write a law that holds the state to the same standard as business. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4n9fw3s3
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Eurozine @eurozine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Daniel Cohn Bendit and Claus Leggewie reflect on the limits of anti-authoritarianism, how the Left has become intolerant of ambiguity, and why, when it comes to Europe, utopianism is the better form of realism. Via @revdem2020.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/for-a-utopia...
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For a utopian realism
Daniel Cohn Bendit and Claus Leggewie have for decades been two of the most influential and original voices on the European Green-Left. Here they reflect on the limits of anti-authoritarianism, how th...
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
✍️ Despite its box office success, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey sparked discussions about essential qualities of cinematic adaptations, particularly in the case of highly regarded works from the Western literary canon, Luca Matasaru writes in his review. 📽️🎞️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/49csfurm
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎙️ In this interview with Ferenc Laczó, Claus Leggewie and Daniel Cohn-Bendit discuss their political friendship, the idea of cosmopolitan universalism, new roles the EU would need to assume, and how a more optimistic political vision could emerge. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/e4m9hvkd
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Kristijan Fidanovski discusses how social democratic policies could reclaim the debate on social reproduction and introduces the idea of “progressive pronatalism.” 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mr3x6kap
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
✍️ Ghulam Hussain offers a groundbreaking analysis of the intersectional structures of caste, class, gender and religion sustaining an architecture of inequality that is officially and publicly denied, Daniel Schnake Venegas writes in his review. 📖🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3xh5ejcs
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why was Hungary’s liberal democratic transition of the late 20th century followed by sharp de-democratization, and why has illiberal regime-building crumbled unexpectedly too? 🇭🇺🇭🇺 ✍️ Ferenc Laczo explores these questions in his op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/587u6w6s
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, @blenormand.bsky.social describes and interprets the main phases of migration in Europe since 1945 and discusses what gendered and intersectional perspectives can reveal about labor migration. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yc69pnmh
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Yane Svetiev discusses how transnational peer review of financial regulators tries to balance supervisory convergence with the risk of shifting power away from elected officials and toward experts. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2wfr9ndw
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
✍️ Legal mobilization can halt extractive projects, but it can't curb extractivism itself. Juliana Jaramillo reviews @sebasmartl.bsky.social's account of how Chilean communities turn to courts, and what that strategy can and cannot deliver. 📚 🧑‍💻 Read it here: 👉 tinyurl.com/yeym38eb
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
✍️ Can a security-first government defend the peace it inherited? Ana María Mondragón argues Colombia's new administration can strengthen security without hollowing out the JEP and the 2016 Peace Agreement's reintegration architecture. 🧑‍💻 Read it here: 📷 tinyurl.com/37m5nx8p
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, @alexghit.bsky.social provides a nuanced perspective about the interwar Bucharest by focusing on the women’s role in welfare work. 🇷🇴🇷🇴 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bnz4b7z3
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, host @annaniia.bsky.social and guests @cryopolitics.com and @klausdodds.bsky.social explore whose interest guide transformation of the Arctic when governments and global powers increasingly look northwards. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3cd6dbmt
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
✍️ What happens when social movements resonate across radically different contexts? @herashakil.bsky.social asks who gets to recognize these resonances and how the socio-material contexts that shape performance determine what counts as meaningful. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 🧑‍💻 Read the article now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2rwv5svy
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
✍️ “The question it opens is more interesting than how to stop growth. It is what arrangements allow a society to hold its future in common rather than capitalize it,” Kristóf Szombati writes in his review of Timothy Mitchell’s book. 📖🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/34dha6pc
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @ccottiero.bsky.social, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Stephan Haggard, and Christina J. Schneider discuss the US’ disengagement from institutions of global governance. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 🎧 Listen to it: 👉 tinyurl.com/yunvxepe
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🎙️ In this new episode of our special series produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Saeid Golkar argues that militarization doesn't always occur through coups, as the Iranian case shows, where IRGC functions as a “state within the state.” 🇮🇷🇮🇷 🎧 Listen now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mrpemeaj
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
✍️ Piketty and Cagé have successfully opened a new research agenda in electoral history, as evidenced by the rapid proliferation of quantitative socio-spatial approaches in French research, Elia Stebach writes in this review. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3asyp73f
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Jonathan Quong examines the uneasy relationship between two central concepts of political philosophy: justice and legitimacy and explains why disagreement about justice is an unavoidable part of living together in free societies. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yk5749cu
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Aline Sierp discusses central questions in contemporary European memory and surveys how EU institutions have attempted to deal with Europe’s past over the decades. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ysr3bz4n
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
✍️ In his op-ed, Suhail Farooq Khan identifies common patterns in both the triggers and the course of recent protests by younger generations in South Asia. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5dnxu3cp
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
✍️ Peru’s democratic erosion offers a warning beyond the country itself. Autocratization can take root in parliament, thrive amid political fragmentation, and eventually deliver executive power to an organized minority, Omar Coronel argues. 🇵🇪🇵🇪 🧑‍💻 Read his op-ed now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2h6nma66
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🎙️ Across the world, political actors are challenging rights in increasingly sophisticated ways. But are we looking in the right places? In our new podcast, María Paula Saffon discusses how we should understand backlash against rights today. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 shorturl.at/sRkgn
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Martin Krygier argues that to prevent arbitrariness, we must rely on mechanisms to temper power beyond the rule of law. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5n6b72by
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
✍️ In his op-ed, Kutup Aytekin argues that flaws in the social policy of authoritarian regimes endanger their longevity by providing potential challengers with an opportunity to contest them. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2r3wkw5b
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🎙️ In this new episode of our podcast series produced in cooperation with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @kimlanelaw.bsky.social discusses the major challenges and dilemmas that the new Hungarian government faces after 16 years of illiberal rule. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4zjcnf37
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
💡 How do leading scholars reflect on contemporary democracies and the prospects of a more democratic future? This new volume, our first print publication, offers a selection of conversations that probe this overarching question. 📚📚 Learn more: 👉 tinyurl.com/4m5v66by
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Mark Leonard (@ecfr.eu) discusses the conclusions he has drawn concerning “the four Cs:” capital, climate, chips, civilizations and talks about what a new, more holistic approach to European security might prioritize. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3makzyx3
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, István Rév discusses the vision behind the @archivum.org, and also reflects on how it defended democratic culture by opening to researchers, students, artists, and the wider public. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4fsczuby
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🎙️ In our latest podcast, @durba.bsky.social discusses the emergence of women's internationalism as both a political project and a mode of knowledge production that grew out of the crisis of developmental nationalism in the 1970s. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3my66d3k
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
✍️ Mattei has written the book we needed for the diagnosis. What she has not written is the book that specifies when de-insulating the economy emancipates and when it merely re-houses domination under a new landlord, Kristof Szombati writes. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read the review now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3e2ee7fu
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Attila Melegh examines the transformation of demography into “a science of population management,” and invites us to rethink the economic institutions that have made migration the central political question of our time. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdzjyzu6
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🎙️ The second part of the podcast with Kieran Burns, Ayoko Mensah, @drnatermann.bsky.social, Aline Sierp, and Ferenc Laczo considers what a thorough rethinking in the light of colonial history of how to be European today would imply. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5ds9eyhj
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
✍️ In this op-ed, Bipin Sebastian questions the tenability of majority rule through elections based on universal adult franchise and ‘one vote, one value’ as a universal procedural blueprint for democracies in the face of ethno-religious majoritarianism. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4bkxp5n7
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
✍️ It “manages to find the perfect balance between ethical responsibility, historical accuracy, and literary merit,” Luca Matasaru writes in his review of @leaypi.bsky.social’s book. 📖🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2nthuthn
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Päivi Leino-Sandberg critically analyzes the recent application of the doctrine of living constitutionalism by EU institutions. 🇪🇺🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/45and882
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, Kieran Burns, Ayoko Mensah, @drnatermann.bsky.social, Aline Sierp, and Ferenc Laczo explore some of the most thought-provoking parts of the “Postcolonial?” exhibition of the House of European History. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/57untd6f
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
✍️ It exposes the interior struggles of an immigrant family and shows how democracy risks to turn into a contest over prevailing values, Raluca Pop writes about this year’s Palme d’Or-winning film. 🎦🎦 🧑‍💻 Read the review now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2zez848d
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
✍️ It invites future researchers to pursue more context-sensitive analyses when identifying the causal drivers of judicial decision-making, Juliana Jaramillo writes in her review of Jordi Díez’s book. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4xckrbyx
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in collaboration with @archivum.org, Bethan Winter shares the fascinating story from 1978, when philosophers traveled to Czechoslovakia to teach philosophy. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/sycf4p9j
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
✍️ In his op-ed, Max Steuer explains current threats to the rule of law in Slovakia and analyzes what a pro-democratic response must entail. 🇸🇰🇸🇰 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/25kk2ctm
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
✍️ By decisively challenging the Enlightenment studies paradigm entrenched in Western historiography, Clark effectively questions the viability of this current vision of this field in global historical scholarship, Mariia Dotsenko writes in her review. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3mmhzmrx
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
✍️ For decades, scholars have assumed a positive relationship between welfare generosity and the level of democracy. In this essay, Kutup Aytekin challenges this consensus by exploring the rise of authoritarian welfarism. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/56fdw4fa
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🆕 Challenging Archives is our new podcast series co-produced with the @archivum.org, featuring the Visegrad Fellows. 🎙️ In the first episode, Eszter Szabó-Reznek discusses Hungarian-language theater in socialist Romania. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/muymswkb
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
✍️ The El-Hishri case, now before the ICC, marks an important milestone in accountability for crimes against humanity committed in Libya. Yet the Court still falls short of delivering full accountability, Omer Shatz (@front-lex.bsky.social) argues in his op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉tinyurl.com/5x9vuwnz
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🎙️ Ancient Greece and Rome are often celebrated as the foundations of democracy. But how have they also been used to legitimize exclusionary politics? @curtisdozier.bsky.social joins #RevDemPodcast to discuss the political afterlives of classical antiquity. 🧑‍💻 Listen here: 👉 tinyurl.com/5n9atzxu
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
✍️ What happens to democracy when truth no longer anchors political life? Valeriia Shaliakhina reviews Michael Patrick Lynch’s "On Truth in Politics," a book that argues democracy cannot survive without a shared respect for facts and knowledge. 📚 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/wxkxhvpn
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
✍️ Hungary’s “electoral revolution” swept away Fidesz’s 16-year rule. But in many marginalized rural communities, the revolution barely arrived. Vera Messing and Judit Durst examine how media isolation and clientelist dependency sustained the party's support. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yhj57t7t
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🎙️ In the newest episode of our series produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Ghia Nodia discusses Georgia’s fragile hybridity, the foreign agents law, and the resistance by civil society. 🧑‍💻 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhx5tax
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
✍️ Trump may be trying to protect the fossil-fuel order. But his strategy could end up hastening its erosion. Deborah Martinez asks whether the green transition can break with the politics of coercion, extraction, and dependence. 🌍🌱 Read the article: 👉 tinyurl.com/4vnf9cnm
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