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carnegieeurope.eu/2022/01/24/european-democracy-support-annual-review-2021-pub-86233 What is unique to study is that examines not just the state of democracy and human rights indices, but the support the European Union provides to related democracy projects.…
Preface Democratic support is seen as a subset of development aid. Thus one might expect that Opposition International would focus solely on democracy-conflicted states. OI explicitly rejects that dualism of…
Jan-Werner Müller is a professor of politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity, A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War…
A paradox of development aid is that donors support Parliamentarians to cooperate with their government on priority issues while funding Civil Society Organizations to confront those governments on the same…
Opposition has both a general and a specific formal meaning. The Latin root is ponere to place and opponere to place in front of. In its general sense the opposition…
Global Partners Governance, a leading U.K. consultancy, stands out for its deep and clear thinking. https://gpgovernance.net Their 2014 report on a survey conducted in Egypt provides an example of good…
South Korea has a remarkable story to tell post the 1953 Armistice. Economic growth and social development accompanied by expanding civil rights and a jittery at first but now stable…
Opposition International is a federally registered nonprofit in Canada, #1367965-9. Its goal is to help strengthen democracy by providing a resource for and about Opposition political parties globally. Based in…
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Benjamin Disraeli
The scope of the Panama Papers, over 11 million documents, has yet to be fully appreciated. As Dean Starkman explains it allows for a glimpse of the size and complexity…
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