Author: Hugh Pope
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The cutting-edge podcasters shows beyond doubt that our system of election-based, representative government is broken. But – while flirting with good alternatives like deliberative democracy and citizens’ assemblies – they fall short in telling us what they think might fix the mess.
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Lessons learned from a week of deliberative democracy and citizens’ assembly events in British Columbia, Canada.
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CEO Nick Grono gives his recipe for success in nonprofit leadership and common pitfalls to avoid.
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I’d like to make a bet that Türkiye – the official name for Turkey since 2021 – is about to make a comeback after years of disastrous economic policies, fear-mongering leadership and regional turmoil. Being invited this week by the Bruegel think-tank in Brussels for a discussion with Turkish Treasury & Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek…
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Citizens’ Assemblies seem to be more and more in the news, making me even gladder that we managed to get my late Dad’s long-lost book on sortition-based democracy published a year ago.
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How writing for decision-makers is the art of getting a message across to people who have little time to read – and who sometimes don’t even want to listen.
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How a new Kurdistan Mental Health Project aims to help Iraqi Kurds overcome the traumatic scars of decades of violent conflict.
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About my new work with ACLED on the presentation of conflict data.
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Random thoughts about elite university applications, including a related excerpt from Maurice Pope’s The Keys to Democracy.
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An appreciation of the life of the recently deceased, dearly beloved reporter Thomas Goltz.
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