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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Eric Schliesser on democracy, its challenges, risks and imperfections, and the Lincoln school of democratic theory on the value of competition as a taming force on opportunism, corruption and a source of feedback, all under heavily imperfect conditions.
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Whither Democracy?
At the end of March, the editor at European Journal of Political Economy wrote me to inform me that the manuscript EJPE-D-24-00221R1, which is a paper I co-authored with Nick Cowen and Aris Trantidis ...
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Nick Cowen and I were right about Trump. Unfortunately.
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Hayek versus Trump: The Radical Right’s Road to Serfdom | Polity: Vol 52, No 2
Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom has been interpreted as a general warning against state intervention in the economy.1 We review this argument in conjunction with Hayek’s later work and discern an institut...
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
For lovers of Trump and the adf and the far right, a reminder from me : isonomiaquarterly.com/volume-2-iss...
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Against ‘Free Market Authoritarianism’
by Aris TrantidisClick here for a print version of this essay (PDF), and remember that paid subscribers get a year’s worth of print editions of IQ Can a ‘free market’ version of authoritarian…
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
My scholarship from fifteen years ago on Building an Authoritarian Regime is unfortunately getting real, and the mechanism I described for managing democracy is in operation now.
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Venting at Democrats and Fearing Trump, Liberal Donors Pull Back Cash
Demoralized donors are frustrated with Democrats’ failings and worried about retribution from the president. Their frugality has left liberal groups struggling to fight the new administration.
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Proud to have contributed to the debate on the future and resilience of democracy for fifteen years now.
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Aris Trantidis on LinkedIn: Proud to have contributed to the debate on the future and resilience of…
Proud to have contributed to the debate on the future and resilience of democracy for fifteen years now. Starting in in 2007 with the "The economic…
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Nick Cowen @drnickcowen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgy-... - Hollis's story - learn what it's like to study International Relations at the University of Lincoln
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BA (Hons) International Relations | Student Story | University of Lincoln
YouTube video by University of Lincoln
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Democracies don't die because of citizens are polarized. Democracies die when when the business elite is co-opted. This is what my research has shown, unlike the existingliterature.
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Let the rest of the world gain from trade with one another while Americans are trying their own bananas
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
"National capitalism" is the road to authoritarianism at home and war across the world
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Yes, it does matter if an AI programme could later erase entire works, publications, and books, art and theories, and ideologies that a regime might deem subversive. We may reach a time where what we know about the past and present will be manicured and controlled by governments.
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump is attacking the very institutional architecture that the US made to become hegemonic.
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
As a professor of politics, I never thought my paper Hayek vs. Trump: The Radical Right’s Road to Serfdom (with N Cowen) would become reality. The road to authoritarianism isn’t just populism—it’s the co-option of business. I thought we were done with this in 2020 but here it comes again. #Democracy
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trantidis.bsky.social @trantidis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The problem with many current power holders is that they don't even keep up appearances anymore. Historically, this was usually a recipe for trouble, but they simple don't care. With the available technology, they have mastered the process of manufacturing beliefs and crushing dissent
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