More diverse than united? A comparative analysis of the EU elections 2024
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Analysis of European Parliament election programmes and electoral campaigns, focusing on key member states in a comparative perspective.
What does a good future with AI look like? A narrative of progress
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How can Germany use artificial intelligence in business, education, the healthcare sector, government and administration in such a way that it is actually useful?
How to Build Momentum for Electoral Success in 2024
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In his paper, Circle of Friends member Patrick Diamond summarises and contextualises the main arguments discussed during the Progressive Governance Stockholm Seminar in 2023.
Beyond the anger and anxiety: Insights into the attitudes and actions that threaten our democracies – and what to do about it
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In his new paper, John Austin delves into the global rise of nationalist and anti-democratic sentiments, particularly in economically declining industrial heartland communities in Europe and the United States. Based on the learnings from the Industrial Heartlands and Democracy Study Tour in November 2023, the paper outlines the reasons behind people’s dissatisfaction and anger. Factors such as economic decline, geographic inequality, social alienation, and political disillusionment emphasize the urgent need for leaders to understand the underlying emotions and experiences driving these anti-democratic sentiments.
New paths to prosperity in industrial heartlands: Report from the industrial heartlands and democracy study tour
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How can we, economically and socially, revitalize former industrial heartland regions while promoting a green transition? This question sat at the heart of our Industrial Heartlands and Democracy Study Tour held in November 2023, which brought together officials and economic change-makers from the US Midwest for a transatlantic exchange with their European peers.
Industrial heartlands in the green transformation
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How can industrial heartlands in Germany and the United States be drivers of a just transition?
Industrial heartlands: holding the key to a more democratic future
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What are the current challenges faced by post-industrial heartland communities and regions?
Full Speed Ahead: Progress in 2022+ – A Decade for a Just Transformation
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SPD, Greens and FDP as parties of progress
Democratising Democracy: No Transformation without Democratisation
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For the 2020s to become a decade of transformation, they also have to become a decade of democratisation
The Strategic Value of Visions: Lessons from Innocracy 2020 and outlook on this year’s conference
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We need visions of the future that unify and integrate democracies on their way forward
How can the 2020s be a progressive decade? – Action Paper
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Progressive politics has to offer both practical policies for the present, and a sense of the more ambitious, longer-term transitions
Momentum for change: Defining a decade of progress – Summit paper
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The post-COVID social contract must establish new systems of public governance, tackle inequality, polarisation and the climate crisis