Articles

Readings on Democracy

Democracy Library – Suggested Reading for an Educated Citizenry (NPR)

10 Must-Read Books about Digital Democracy – CitizenLab’s Blog

Transcript: Obama’s Speech Defending Democracy (Published 2018)

Rethinking US Election Law: Unskewing the System – Steven Mulroy

American Democracy is Stronger Than its Enemies

Tracking the Western Response to the War in Ukraine

How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad

Decolonizing Russia

Is Donald Trump The Right Man For the Job?

Non-violence and Civil Disobedience

What Gandhi can teach today’s protesters

Election Integrity and Reform

Electoral Integrity Report, 2019 — The Electoral Integrity Project EIP

Systems Thinking

Approaching Democracy as a Complex System | Democracy Fund

Complex systems help explain how democracy is destabilised

Systems Thinking: A View from the Trenches (SSIR)

Systems Thinking and How It Can Help Build a Sustainable World: A Beginning Conversation – The Solutions Journal

Systems Thinking, Learning, and Problem Solving by Russell L. Ackoff

Critical Thinking

This week’s reading: All the fake news you can handle – Macleans.ca

Fake news and misinformation: Why teaching critical thinking is crucial for democracy

Confronting Fake News and Misinformation

99 Ways to Fix American Politics

The world’s democracies, including Canada, face a historic choice

Dark Money

Dark Money Basics

Ukrainian foreign influence operation bankrolled by secret donors in coordinated effort