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Sharing information on #democracy. Don't accept autocracy in your life.

[It's Democracy @DemocracyIt]

@UNDPPA @SustDev @nprpolitics @UNDP @CGDev

[European Consortium for Political Research @ECPR]

💡 Join our new Research Network on 'The Sciences of the Democracies' founded by @JeanPaulRGagnon 🦋

🤩 Fun Fact: This group is developing the world's first open-access, AI-supported, digital encyclopaedia of the "democracies" 💥

Find out more 👉 https://t.co/z8XHwP1Jrp

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🦋#ScienceOfDemocracy 103
#HermanMelville’s 'ruthless democracy', argues @GreimanJennifer, is a creative performance. It reimagined democratic relations & possibilities as matters for aesthetic thought & work – with strong implications for #PoliticalTheory
https://t.co/EZ2twUeqLE

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👋🏿 @UNESCO

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🎇DELIGHTED to release the 100th instalment in our🦋#ScienceOfDemocracy series, led by indefatigable @JeanPaulRGagnon
🎆 The series has published pieces by 106 authors in 27 countries worldwide, as far afield as 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇭🇰🇸🇬🇹🇼🇬🇭🇮🇷🇰🇪 & 🇳🇬
🥂Here's to the next💯
https://t.co/Bc98boMlum

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@PolStudiesRev

[The Butterfly Collector 🦋 @JeanPaulRGagnon]

"Despite improvement in the diversity of elected representatives, most parliaments have yet to achieve numerical equality." @karenceliscelis & @profsarahchilds

@Equal2030 @nicolembarga @aytchellesse @ajgarcialive @khamis_mayanja @CurleyPollly @MarkHazard2020 @EngenderHealth

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@PolStudies

[The Butterfly Collector 🦋 @JeanPaulRGagnon]

"Even when #parliaments do enjoy diverse elected representatives, it does not necessarily engender greater attention to minority groups' concerns" @karenceliscelis & @profsarahchilds

@RepJournal @Refugees_EU @UNFPA_Nordic @GERMANYonUN @LuxembourgNATO @rebootrepresent @UNFPA_DC

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@PolStudiesAssoc

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"Cooperative socialism is more bottom-up, generative of collective consciousness and variety." @lukemartell

@BlackRadAnarcho @XxchanC @olly_gough_ @MisterWillow_ @NickCooperative @1854plus1984 @Mythowish @MrAdamBooth @Tori_TLCR @VSNRadio @Hexpatriot @analytichegel @eshear

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@PolSciUIBK

[The Butterfly Collector 🦋 @JeanPaulRGagnon]

"[L]essons for socialism are to be more democratic and liberal, to allow diversity, and to grow publicly minded consciousness" - @lukemartell

@GVAGrad_AHDC @DamonSilvers @LibArtsNdCrafts @SomPundit @politicsawards @COE_Tirana @tobetechnology_ @stateinnovation @xn_ary @SSIReview

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@PolSciLeiden

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.94
One of the most marginalised groups in contemporary democracies is children under 18 years of age. @ProfJohnWall argues that responding to #DemocraticDecline in our time must include giving all children the right to vote 🗳️
https://t.co/cX05yi0Owr

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@PoliSciatNU

[Martin Bull @ProfMartinJBull]

🦋 "Why democracies need children’s suffrage" - If you've never seriously thought about the issue then read this eloquent and persuasive argument by @ProfJohnWall for @ECPR_TheLoop : https://t.co/HgPYS3iLwc

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@PoliSciRes

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"Why should suffrage be 'universal and equal'? It is because democracies are meant to respond to the concerns of those they govern." - @ProfJohnWall

@ElieFoubert @AnthemSimon @PoliticsBridge @ubimaldives @Dispatch_DD @CohereAI @HazemMalhas @BahaiFriends @bheijn67 @binkssake_

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@ps_polisci

[The Butterfly Collector 🦋 @JeanPaulRGagnon]

"Adult populations and corporate bottom lines, for example, skew political decision-making toward the immediate here and now. Ageless voting would pressure representatives to think longer-term." @ProfJohnWall

@artandfox @julesfurious @RockTheVote @brunosmom0408 @Vote16Canada

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@upd_polsci

[The Butterfly Collector 🦋 @JeanPaulRGagnon]

"As in all previous suffrage movements, some feel that new groups gaining the vote means existing voters lose out. But this assumption always proves false." - @ProfJohnWall

@DrSheilaHanlon @anMheanmhuir @VoterEngagement @OpenDoorAdvisor @rp_griffin @DrMissKecia @suzannemrivera

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@CUP_PoliSci

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.95
James Tully, Keith Cherry, @artsofdenial & Pablo Ouziel explain how different conceptions of #democracy can be grouped into 'families of democracies' which can 'join hands' to establish an ecosocial succession that benefits all
https://t.co/XVVhrO6YAQ

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@UofT_PolSci

[Democratic Theory: An Interdisciplinary Journal @DemTheory]

Families of democracy, joining hands, for ecosocial succession.

Read on for more.

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@Center4GoodGovt

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"By perceiving, enacting and integrating democratic diversity, we can 'join hands' with human and other-than-human relatives"
- Tully, Cherry, Owen, and Ouziel

@BaxterJanella @amusejanetmason @areikm @malatis8 @Dangerfox @UniofGreenwich @jeffvandermeer @Film_London @tnatw

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@Center4PublicEd

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.96 @AnastasiaKavada's concept of 'project democracy' centres democracy around action, organisation & implementation. She argues this offers an understanding of democracy that goes beyond practices discussed in academic literature
https://t.co/oaA9D1az7B

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@Center4PE

[The Butterfly Collector 🦋 @JeanPaulRGagnon]

"Indigenous community-based democracies on Turtle Island (North America) are among the oldest democracies."
- Tully, Cherry, @artsofdenial, Ouziel

@KulkarniManju @bmchsd @Jiaminicbokisu2 @OCEIA_SF @PackforaPurpose @AsiaSocietyIC @_Anyalla @MentalHealth_MA @GHS @CICan_ESP_TZ

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@Center4Politics

[CAMRI Media Research @UoW_CAMRI]

.@AnastasiaKavada discusses her concept of 'project democracy' for @ECPR_TheLoop https://t.co/5B1y6fiEJu

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@centre4girls

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"#Democracy demands that we assert ourselves in improving our communities while remaining open to disagreement about how that community ought to be improved." - @scottrstroud

@ColetteColfer @gALeN_Live @Juergen_Maier @Pabloite @up_bles @BobBorsley @NimeshReshamiya @pauloCanning

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@cgcer1

[Scott R. Stroud @scottrstroud]

Here’s a short piece where I consider #Ambedkar as a theorist of #democracy.. #jaibhim