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2025 Democracy Briefer for Funders: What's Happening to European Democracy and What Funders Can Do About It
Brussels: Philanthropy Europe Association (2025), 52 pp.
"Democratic backsliding in recent years has been characterised by gradual, often legalistic shifts, rather than overt actions like coups. Europe is seeing worrying declines in electoral integrity, civil liberties and rule of law. There are several factors driving democratic backsliding in Europe, bu
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Autoritarismus kommt vor dem Fall: Die Kirche als Regierungsopposition in Venezuela
Herder-Korrespondenz, issue 5 (2025), pp. 44-46
"Die einstige Vorzeigedemokratie Venezuela ist seit der Regierungszeit von Hugo Chávez von Autoritarismus geprägt. Seit 2013 hält sich der Sozialist Nicolás Maduro zunehmend brutal an der Macht. Die Kirche versucht, dagegenzuhalten." (Einleitung)
Ruanda 1994 bis heute: Vom Vorhof der Hölle zum Modell für Afrika - Wahrheit und Schein in Ruanda
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 170 pp.
"1994 kam es in Ruanda zu einem Völkermord, bei dem radikale Angehörige der Bevölkerungsgruppe der Hutus innerhalb von drei Monaten Hundertausende Menschen aus der Tutsi-Minderheit wie auch viele gemäßigte Hutus umbrachten. Gut 30 Jahre später gilt Ruanda vor allem in Europa und den USA als Vo
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42 razones contra la ley antisocial: Argumentario contra la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones no Gubernamentales y Afines
Caracas: Acceso a la Justicia (2024), 2 pp.
"En nuestro argumentario recopilamos 42 razones contra la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales y Afine (Ley Antisociedad), cuya aprobación anulará el derecho de asociación en Venezuela y cerrará aún más el espacio cívico.
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Afghanistan 2001-2021: Gewaltideologien und ein Hauch von offener Gesellschaft
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 209 pp.
"Welchen Einfluss haben Gesinnungen der Gewalt auf die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in Afghanistan? Die internationalen Beiträger*innen richten ihren Blick auf linke, dschihadistische sowie talibanistische Ideologien und Praktiken in der jüngeren afghanischen Geschichte. Multiperspektivisch ze
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The Planalto riots: Making and unmaking a failed coup in Brazil
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 254 pp.
Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China
Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2023), xi, 318 pp.
PsicoData Venezuela: Un retrato psicosocial
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Escuela de Psicología (2023), 39 slides
"Al adentrarse en el estudio de las características psicológicas de los venezolanos, el principal rasgo que sobresale es su complejidad y la presencia de elementos aparentemente contradictorios en su seno. En el caso concreto de las dimensiones que conforman una condición de vulnerabilidad, algun
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Nueva mirada sobre Venezuela: Reflexiones para construir una visión compartida
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB); Fundación Centro Gumilla (2023), 258 pp.
"El libro que tiene en sus manos empieza con una perspectiva cristiana de la realidad venezolana, para después mirar el contexto latinoamericano y mundial. Sigue un panorama amplio del desarrollo político de la democracia en Venezuela, desde el modelo modernizador del siglo XX hasta el proyecto bo
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Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19
London; New York, NY: Routledge (2023), xx, 299 pp.
"Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the Covid-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much publ
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
New York: Routledge (2023), xxx, 522 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edit
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Francisco José Virtuoso y la crisis de la democracia en Venezuela
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB); ABediciones; Fundación Centro Gumilla (2023), 279 pp.
"Hay que agradecer al profesor Andrés Cañizález el esfuerzo de haber hecho una selección y curaduría de un conjunto de textos del pensamiento del rector Francisco José Virtuoso, SJ, sobre el proceso político vivido en Venezuela desde finales de la década de los 80 hasta alcanzar el período
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Brennpunkt Westafrika: Die Fluchtursachen und was Europa tun sollte
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2022), 317 pp.
"Westafrika wird in Europa oft undifferenziert als Krisenregion wahrgenommen. Während fundierte Kenntnisse über die Geschichte und Gegenwart der dortigen Staaten vielfach fehlen, halten sich Stereotype über die Ursachen von Flucht und Migration in und aus Westafrika zäh. Der Soziologe Olaf Berna
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Afrika und die Welt: Betrachtungen zur Globalgeschichte Afrikas in der Neuzeit
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 335 pp.
"Bis heute hält sich der globale Norden für kompetent, Erwartungen an Afrika zu formulieren und dessen Entwicklungen zu bewerten Der Afrikawissenschaftler Arno Sonderegger zeichnet nach, wie Europäer aus imaginierter Überlegenheit heraus über Jahrhunderte den Sklavenhandel aus Afrika betrieben
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Democracy Report 2022: Autocratization Changing Nature?
Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute (2022), 58 pp.
"The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 is down to 1989 levels. The last 30 years of democratic advances are now eradicated. Dictatorships are on the rise and harbor 70% of the world population – 5.4 billion people. There are signals that the nature of autocratization
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Condiciones de vida de los venezolanos ENCOVI 2022
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2022), 54 slides
"En 2022 se ha observado una ralentización del nivel de la actividad económica (7,2%) en comparación al segundo semestre de 2021 y se pronostica que todavía caerá en 2023 (4,4%), a niveles insuficientes para la recuperación a los niveles pre-crisis. Una combinación de factores dan cuenta de e
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The Global State of Democracy: Forging Social Contracts in a Time of Discontent
Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) (2022), viii, 52 pp.
"The fourth edition of the Global State of Democracy Report comes at a time when democracy is under both literal and figurative assault around the world. The steady drumbeat of such warnings—included in the previous edition of this report, which was produced at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Engendering Democracy in Africa: Women, Politics and Development
London, New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 190 pp.
