In his latest article, NOUS member Amichai Magan re-examines the democratic entitlement thesis in light of the recent negative trends in democracy’s international fortunes. He argues that the right to democratic governance is a layered, and potentially severable, edifice, parts of which now seem to be eroding, but which is unlikely to be entirely undone by a reverse wave of democratic breakdowns and resurgent authoritarianism. He then examines some of the main implications of the current democratic recession for the right to democratic governance in international law.
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Jerg Guthmann & Stefan Voigt: Testing Todd: family types and development
Many years ago, Emmanuel Todd came up with a classification of family types and argued that the historically prevalent family types in a society have important consequences for its economic, political, and social development. Here, Read more…