Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Recent Digital Publications

Transformative events and (Dis)Trust in District Council Election of Hong Kong before and after China’s Crackdown of the Democratic Movement 

Steve Chan1 and Charles Wong2  Introduction  Elections are not enough to guarantee democracy. Rather, authoritarian regimes may use voting to whitewash their manipulation of the polity. This paper analyses the sharp contrast in the two District Council elections of Hong Kong in 2019 and 2023. The rise of the Anti-Extradition Law...

Human-centered Universities for Twenty-First Century Democratic Societies:  Learning to Trust, Engage, and Innovate 

By Olga Koulisis, PhD America’s bold eighteenth-century experiment in professed human equality is on trial, once again.  Equality, moderation, and pluralism, mainstays of celebrated American political rhetoric and battlegrounds of U.S. political development, again have become ideas non grata for some who encourage a twenty-first century politics of elitism, extremism, and...

C21 Hosts WI Campus Vote Project Summit 

As part of our efforts to expand conversations on our 2023/2024 theme, “Trust the Vote”, we were elated to have hosted the 2023 Wisconsin Campus Voting Summit. The summit equipped over 40 civil leaders and college voting advocates with creative tactics to help ignite interest in voting on their...

Interactive Book Club

The Interactive Book Club serves as an extension of our Interactive Symposia for those interested in learning more about the topics included under our current themes.

For each roundtable, our guests will provide book recommendations, discussion questions, and supplemental material to help explore the issues in classrooms and discussion groups.

Check out our Trust & The Vote Book Club by clicking the image below!

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