Thursday, March 29, 2018

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Yiannis Kokkinakis | " ... the political economy of reforms in Europe" (pdf)

Kokkinakis83.pdf



from the Adstract: " ...  I shall also focus on a less self-evident parameter
of recent developments: the prevalence of technocratic solutions, and the retreat of
political processes and elective bodies in the formulation and implementation of
economic policy in Europe"

Monday, March 19, 2018

Italy Is the West’s Future – Foreign Policy

 Italy Is the West’s Future – Foreign Policy

On one level, you might argue that the Italian election was classic Italian politics: a festa of successful insurgent outsiders, overturned insiders, and anti-establishment populism that is entirely in keeping with a national tradition of general political chaos. But on another level, those with an eye on the deeper currents will rightly see the events in Italy as a symptom of more profound changes that are sweeping through Europe’s creaking party systems, and that still have a long way to run.

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower | News | The Guardian



‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower | News | The Guardian



Cambridge Analytica and all that!

Friday, March 9, 2018

Democracy Index 2017 I EIU

http://pages.eiu.com/rs/753-RIQ-438/images/Democracy_Index_2017.pdf?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRnd05ETTNNelJqWlRVMSIsInQiOiJUN3VlM0N2VzJEXC95bG41Mmxzc0V1YnI0bjVDWXFhK1wvVm5GODFoZE8rcityN2hsT0dFdGZKMVFPZDNUOEhJdjRMTXR6OXhLOXBnOU83OEQrb2Z6K1JZdHVRNVwva2RpMTdnczV5a2Y5bDc4ZkZjdVpNNGJzamt4eElYa3JDWnJtSSJ9

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwide for 165 independent states and two territories. This covers almost the entire population of the world and the vast majority of the world’s states (microstates are excluded). The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. Based on its scores on a range of indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: “full democracy”; “flawed democracy”; “hybrid regime”; and “authoritarian regime”.