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Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 3: Communication, Governance, and Economics
Strategies for limiting the destructiveness of red/blue conflicts based on better communication, fact-finding, collaboration, governance, and economics.
Colleague Activities
Collaborating Across Differences to Reduce Authoritarianism: A Literature Review
A literature review exploring the question: What are the practices that support groups that come together to collaborate across differences to reduce authoritarianism?
Colleague Activities
ACTIVATING KEY PILLARS: Combatting Authoritarianism to Uphold Democracy in the United States
A description of how key institutional pillars, notably business, faith, and media, can incentivize pro-democratic behavior and discourage authoritarian behavior at the state and federal levels.
Colleague Activities
The Antidote to Authoritarianism
Ordinary people, organized effectively, have the power to drive social change upwards to create the conditions for justice, equity, and freedom. 27 leaders reflect on how to do this now.
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Power Grabbers
Unfortunately, there are people whose principal goal in life is to seek power -- power that enables them to exploit and dictate the beliefs and behaviors of others.
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Corruption and Economic Exploitation
Another common strategy of bad-faith actors is to exploit everyone else for their own economic and political gain.
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Opposing Economic Exploitation and Corruption
This section examines ways of assuring that democrcy's leaders act in ways that pursue the common good (and not the advancement of their narrow selfish interests).
News and Opinion
Why Biden Needs to Confront Corruption
News and Opinion
Democracy on the Defense -- Turning Back the Authoritarian Tide
News and Opinion
Only Bipartisanship Can Defeat Authoritarian Aggression
A persuasive argument that the only way in which we can protect ourselves from authoritarian threats (both external and internal) is by recommitting ourselves to working together for the common defense.
News and Opinion
Authoritarianism is surging. Can liberal democracy fight back?
News and Opinion
Madeleine Albright: America's Opportunity to Lead the Fight Against Authoritarianism
News and Opinion
After Trump, America Needs Accountability for His Corruption
News and Opinion
With New Anti-Corruption Strategy, Biden Takes Aim at Kleptocrats