Ben Press

Now: @Harvard_Law | @RepMoulton, @CarnegieEndow, and @NDI alum | Princeton '20

[Ben Press @Ben__Press]

Truly honored to be on this Russian sanctions list, alongside @BarackObama @maddow @franceszbrown @RachelKleinfeld and so many other wonderful folks! https://t.co/ItQh2Oqwwt

[Noah Gordon @noah_gordon_]

Climate change and the responses to it can make people angry. Increasingly, they are taking to the streets to protest.
So our @CarnegieEndow team has launched a new Climate Protest Tracker to help you follow political unrest in the Anthropocene: https://t.co/bPDMWTkel9

[Sharan Srinivas @Sharan_Srinivas]

To address democratic backsliding effectively, @Ben__Press & Tom Carothers call for a more differentiated understanding of its central causes & facilitating factors to enable sharper and nuanced responses.

[Carnegie Democracy @CarnegieDCG]

Over the past two decades, democratic backsliding has become a defining trend in global politics.

@CarnegieEndow scholar Thomas Carothers and @Ben__Press breakdown this backsliding and response strategies 👇

https://t.co/GJzKH3SWY9

[Carnegie Europe @Carnegie_Europe]

🇺🇸 | The deep divisions over values that have fractured US politics are being replicated in civil society support abroad.

As a result, civil society aid from the United States often flows to organizations on both sides of an issue, says @Ben__Press ⤵️

https://t.co/oPjo782NoM

[Carnegie Democracy @CarnegieDCG]

Rising geopolitical competition is the defining feature of contemporary international relations. However, a crucial open question remains, how does the geopolitical era affect global civil society?

@YoungsRichard et al. assess this issue across the globe:
https://t.co/cEWFfCCbUw

[Vishnu Kannan @ViKannan_]

The CHIPS Act aims to address US supply chain, competitiveness, and chip security concerns. But it won’t fully address any of these alone.

In a new @CarnegieEndow paper, @jacob_feldgoise and I explore where CHIPS falls short and what comes next. 1/12

https://t.co/LHgYJ6wEws

[Carnegie Democracy @CarnegieDCG]

In their new @CarnegieEndow paper, Thomas Carothers and @Ben__Press analyze the distinct motivations and mechanisms of the leader-driven antidemocratic political projects that lie at the heart of global democratic backsliding.

📄 Read here:
https://t.co/V9Ncfm2Eig

[Demo Finland @DemoFinland]

This @CarnegieEndow paper by Thomas Carothers and @Ben__Press offers a new analysis on why democracies backslide and how to respond to democratic backsliding. A must-read for all who support and defend #democracy!
https://t.co/tBIWdnpm0q

[Carnegie Democracy @CarnegieDCG]

As democracy faces an 18th year of global retreat, Thomas Carothers and @Ben__Press focus on the motives and methods of anti-democratic leaders to offer a new framework for understanding and responding to global democratic backsliding.

Read here:
https://t.co/V9NcflL2TG

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

New @CarnegieDCG paper by Tom Carothers and Ben Press presents a new typology of democratic backsliding around the world https://t.co/TkL1rYTfLH

[Ali Noorani @anoorani]

Leadership matters. And when leaders are anti-democratic, democracies backslide. @CarnegieDCG and @Ben__Press layout how/why it happens and what needs to be done in response.

https://t.co/W1iBlS8DVT

[Carnegie Endowment @CarnegieEndow]

What is to blame for the global decline of democratic institutions?

How can policymakers respond?

Thomas Carothers and @Ben__Press explain:

https://t.co/UkvV2UH494

[Ben Press @Ben__Press]

In our new @CarnegieEndow paper, Thomas Carothers and I argue that, in light of the shortcomings of most causal explanations, "backsliding" needs to be broken down. Read more here!

[Carnegie Democracy @CarnegieDCG]

In their new paper, Thomas Carothers and @Ben__Press show that existing explanations of backsliding fall short. Instead, they argue that it is crucial to focus on methods and motivations of anti-democratic leaders to build new comparative understanding.

https://t.co/V9NcflL2TG

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

Observers are clinging to U.S. hubris—albeit in a new form, argue @CarnegieDCG and @Ben__Press.
https://t.co/GEf7vF9RzG

[Rachel Kleinfeld @RachelKleinfeld]

America is exceptional. Unfortunately, in its level of democratic backsliding: https://t.co/CyL4z8EFGW

[Ben Press @Ben__Press]

Rather than overemphasizing commonalities with the US, analysts need to recognize that backsliding is a nuanced process that looks very different in different contexts. Just b/c backsliders share a downward democratic trajectory doesn't mean they're getting there in the same way.

[Ben Press @Ben__Press]

Excited to share our new article, just out in
@ForeignPolicy! In it, Thomas Carothers and I argue that viewing the global democratic recession through a U.S. lens is leading many to misread what's happening in other countries. A quick thread: https://t.co/yArIKo15KO

[Ben Press @Ben__Press]

Additionally, arguing that the factors that have been hurting U.S. democracy-- like populism, polarization, and Russia/China-- are hurting democracy everywhere misses the mark. None of these explanations holds water across cases.