#Multiparty

Lee Drutman

leedrutman

We talk a lot about asymmetrical polarization. The most troubling asymmetrical polarization is that only one party's leaders believe that democracy is worth preserving and it depends on not demonizing

Erik Meyersson

emeyersson

This weekend I went through @EBRD Annual Reviews back to 2005 and matched with @vdeminstitute's democracy indices to see if its activities followed its stated commitment to multiparty democracy. Here's

AfriCOG

AfriCOG

1/9 Three decades into the transition from an authoritarian one-party state to multiparty democracy, and well over a decade into a new progressive constitutional dispensation, Kenya’s democratic transition is seriously

Omar Wasow

owasow

In close races, no matter who wins, ~50% of voters will see their votes wasted. ”Our system of single-member plurality-winner congressional districts has accelerated polarization, made most voters irrelevant, and

Jennifer Gumbel

jgumbel

Part of what I studied in undergrad was comparative politics and developing democracies. And we're stuck with two parties. True multi-party systems are not winner take all. The political leader

Fidato

tequieremos

The First officially declared citizen of Pakistan was a Jewish born Allama Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss, 1900-1992). Jinnah appointed him as head of Department of Islamic Reconstruction with an aim:

Kess, 🎃scary time👻

Kesswylie

Voting for independent candidates is an extremey misguided mistake. That sounds great. But comes from a misunderstanding on how elections should and do work. This is partially caused by the

Кирилл Каминец

Noetic_Pirate

Russian philosopher DMITRY GALKOVSKY on the 2020 United States presidential election: Houston, you have a problem.The standard argument against Russian schadenfreude about the outrageous things happening in the U.S. is

Nebula #SHAmanCouncil🧙‍♂️$SHA

Nebula_Matrix

Thread for $SHA@SafeHavenio is a sleeping giantThere are few projects that have built a better ecosystem than @SafeHavenio. I might even take it a step futher & say #SafeHaven has

Bwesigye

bwesigye

In Political Science and Constitutional Law studies, in many countries and political systems in the world, it is possible for a Presidential candidate to win an election while the political

William (MAGA murdered a policeman)🥀 🇺🇸

PWM62

General headerI will be posting a number of items connected to this tweet that is pinned. To avoid confusion, the threads will be numbered and lettered. Example, 1A, 2A, 1B,

The Daily Mao

TheDailyMao

1/ I think Chinese liberals will never be relevant to the majority of Chinese people(as for whether that's a good thing or not, I'll leave that up to you)@timeswang 2/

Matt Steinglass мы живем в мертвящей пустоте

mattsteinglass

Here’s our endorsement of the Biden and Romney plans to pay parents a direct cash benefit. I would just add two points: 1/https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/02/13/reducing-child-poverty-in-america?frsc=dg%7Ce First, America is despera

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

2021 predictions () Student loans will (finally) be understood as a bubble on a par with the housing market in 2008. Some of the fallout will be temporarily explained away

kadel🦋

MARJ1C

This is why the concept of a revolution in Kenya is a very fragile thing when it comes to #Covid19Millionaires and #EnoughIsEnough (These thoughts are a compilation from a close

Elizabeth Stokoe 💙💙💙

LizStokoe

A thread on the 'quality’ of F2F vs online interaction.While ‘communication is key’, what we know about communication, inc. online, often rests on stereotypes or anecdata. So when it comes

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