US Climate and Industrial Policy: What We’ve Won, What Comes Next
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Longstanding deadlocks over how to pay for the green transition in the US have been breached. What is the next step for climate politics?
The Geography of Discontent: Helping Fallen Behind Places
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Economic growth and political power are again concentrating in the most dynamic regions. How can we counter territorial neglect, discontent and rising populism?
Child Care Policy is Labor Policy
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We should no longer focus on policies to revitalize the economy based on assumptions about labor markets alone.
A new internationalism on the terms of labour
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The balance of political forces in the US and Europe still favour the 1%.
Strategies for a World without Right-Wing Populism and Nationalism
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In this blog post for the Progressive Governance Digital Summit 2021, Cas Mudde proposes three strategies for fighting right-wing populism. On the one hand, it has been refreshing to have a year without a global obsession about “populism”. On the other hand, COVID-19 has demonstrated how vulnerable even the most advanced democracies and welfare states …
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A Nation Seeking Redemption
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The Biden administration must atone for the past four years by delivering tangible relief, recovery, and reform.
New Progressive Ostpolitik: Ambitious, But Not Naive
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Celebrating 50 years “Kniefall von Warschau”, searching for a future-oriented Eastern policy.
Electing Joe Biden Was Never a Reset Button
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To implement progressive policies, Democrats need a longer narrative than the four-year presidential election cycle.
Corona & Society: Reflecting on the Crisis
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With the blog-series “Corona & Society”, Das Progressive Zentrum joins the debate on what society and politics can learn from the crisis, both politically and conceptually. In this time of upheaval, we want to detect and record tendencies early on so that necessary processes of change can be initiated in good time. In doing so, …
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The future of work and robots after Covid-19
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The current recession is likely to cause serious social dislocation when we can least afford it.
Gender equality and the pandemic
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It took a global pandemic for the words ‘women’ and ‘leadership’ to come together.
Covid-19: Reflections on Crisis
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What is a crisis? What do crises do?