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Policy Brief
A new policy brief by Jon Alexander, Non-resident Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, argues for the development of a Department of Citizen Empowerment (DOCE) at all levels of government around the world.
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This report explores the potential of bridging and discusses some of the most common objections, addressing questions around legitimacy and practicality.
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The Trump presidency featured a high volume of contentious mobilization. In this research article, the authors describe the collection and aggregation of protest mobilization data from 2017 to 2021 and offer five observations.
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The programs and rules that affect Americans’ daily lives and security are profoundly shaped by the regulatory and rule-making process within the Executive Branch of government.
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Researchers and funders should redirect focus from centralized autonomous general intelligence to a plurality of established and emerging approaches that extend cooperative and augmentative traditions as seen in successes such as Taiwan’s digital democracy project to collective intelligence platforms like Wikipedia.
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