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  • December 6, 2020
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  • Blog, GUEST AUTHORS, Home Slider

A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog? Bulgaria, the EU and North Macedonia

Guest Author Tomasz Kamusella writes on Bulgaria’s veto of North Macedonia’s initiation of membership talks with the EU – and Bulgaria under Borisov’s apparent national ambitions.

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  • November 29, 2020
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Using Technology to Protect Whistleblowers and Expose Government Malfeasance

Guest author Ermin Zatega discusses how technology can facilitate transparency and support whistleblowers, in the interest of more accountable governance.

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  • November 9, 2020
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  • Blog, Home Slider, VALERY PERRY

When Will I Celebrate

DPC Senior Associate Valery Perry reflects on how she hopes a Biden administration democratic clean-up in the US will prompt a rethinking of democratization policy abroad.

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  • November 2, 2020
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  • Authors, Blog, Home Slider, VALERY PERRY

Breaking the Democratic Chains

While awaiting the US elections, DPC Senior Associate Valery Perry considers the intentional structural constraints that will impede reform in any administration, considering parallels and lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chile.

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  • September 6, 2020
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  • Authors, Blog, Home Slider, VALERY PERRY

Who Decides How We Decide? A Book Review

Valery Perry reviews Peter Emerson’s book, Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism: Preferential Decision-making for an Inclusive Democracy, and asks why we are so slow to improve the way we make decisions.

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  • June 26, 2020
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  • Authors, Blog, VALERY PERRY

Neka druga vrsta vela ignorancije

Ovog vikenda sam pročitala priču u The New York Times-u o roditelju koji posmatra kako njegov jedanaestogodišnji sin stvara viziju o tome na koji način bi se fiktivnom planetom najbolje upravljalo i vladalo, a kao dio školske domaće zadaće tokom COVID-ere…….

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  • June 22, 2020
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  • Blog, Home Slider, VALERY PERRY

A Different Kind of Veil of Ignorance

DPC Senior Associate Valery Perry ponders what political philosopher John Rawls might have thought about the recent Mostar “deal,” and how more just and inclusive processes could deliver better results.

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  • June 14, 2020
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  • Blog, Home Slider, KURT BASSUENER

Polarization for Power and Profit: the Balkan Echoes of Trump’s Politics

Senior Associate Kurt Bassuener writes on US President Donald Trump’s use of polarization techniques familiar in the Balkans

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  • June 4, 2020
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  • Blog, GUEST AUTHORS, VALERY PERRY

Zviždači ne bi morali biti heroji

A translation of a November 2019 blog on whistleblowers.

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