Throwback Thursday election version! Twin Cities CBS TV affiliate, @wcco anchors (L to R) Skip Loescher, Dave Moore, Pat Miles, reporting on the returns at the Control Data Corporation news desk on election night November 2, 1982.
It's official: Tremendously looking forward to being part of the ARM consortium which has received Horizon funding to comparatively study authoritarian states' suppression of information as a part of their foreign policy and towards diasporas in Europe. I'll lead the Work Package on Russia.
Wie alt ist das deutsche Bundesrecht? Ein Maßstab dafür kann das Ausfertigungsjahr sein.
Hier sehen wir die Anzahl aller 6736 Bundesgesetze und -verordnungen auf www.gesetze-im-internet.de am Stichtag (3. Oktober 2023), gruppiert nach Ausfertigungsjahr, unabhängig davon ob sie im Internet mit oder ohne Text veröffentlicht wurden (ca. 1000 Rechtsakte sind ohne Text). Berücksichtigt sind nur Stammgesetze, keine Änderungsgesetze.
Grateful for Oct. trips to Capitol Hill to offer historical perspective on AI and to frame contemporary social risks and opportunities--first at the @AHAHistorians AHA Congressional Briefing on AI w/ Janet Abbate @nescioquid & Matt Connelly (to air on CSPAN) then at the AI Policy Symposium and Inauguration of Academic Alliance for AI Policy (for which I & the Babbage Institute will be ongoing participants)
Should we adjust the ideal of #Democracy to institutional reality or should we try to bring reality closer to the ideal?
In a new paper 🎉 , @VerglPolwi and I argue that deliberative responsiveness constitutes a promise representative democracy can fulfill.
We show how contemporary democracies struggle to meet this standard and discuss three institutional innovations to improve deliberative responsiveness.
New book published by UCL Press: "Parliament Buildings: The Architecture of Politics in Europe", co-edited by Sophia Psarra, Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg.
I've contributed a chapter called "Degrees of opposition and cooperation: how seating plans and parliament layouts reflect and give rise to political cultures"
Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13056@sociology@politicalscience This take on mechanisms and process tracing is a little bit different, but interesting. I agree that explanation can yield insights about power. I am less confident that it can expose lies. 1/
⌛️t-5: Don't forget to submit your proposals for the #DVPW#convention on "Politics in Times of Polycrisis" and join us on 24-27 September 2024 in Göttingen!
The #CfP closes on 31 October 2023, so that's your last chance 😀
💬 Part 1 of our "Participant Insights Series" is here!
We are proud to present our first #citizen perspective on the #regroup#minipublics. How was it for the participants to engage in a deliberative democracy setting? Time for the participants' voices to be heard!
Click the images to read how this participant reflects on his experience in the Dutch mini-public. 👇
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