by Maureen Klaiber | Oct 23, 2026 | Brown University
In 2017, Weitz-Shapiro and Winters conducted research on information credibility in Brazil, finding that citizens unilaterally punished corrupt politicians in the polls and could widely discern between credible and unreliable information, and further, that the...
by Erin Crawford | Apr 17, 2026 | Boston University
BackgroundDemocratic backsliding is often portrayed as being the result of solely or primarily an executive using their executive power and influence to consolidate power and weaken institutions as a factor, while this is in fact the case in many instances,...
by Braden Jones | Nov 27, 2022 | Boston University
The Futures Forum On November 3, 2022, Germany hosted the inaugural Futures Forum in Muenster. The U.S. took part in the forum as part of a joint effort agreed upon in July 2021 by President Biden and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel to bring together an...
by Ryan Yong | Jul 24, 2022 | Dartmouth College
This month, former Uber lobbyist Mark MacGann revealed over 124,000 documents of extensive notes and messages between world leaders and Uber executives around the world, which laid the foundation to Uber’s rapid success. The Uber Files illustrate the importance of...
by Itai Grofman | Feb 3, 2022 | University of Chicago
In Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition, Robert Dahl posits “three necessary conditions for a democracy” [1]. Underlying all three conditions is the availability of “alternative sources of information” [2]. For this reason, it seemed – early in the information...
