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New blog! 📝 In this blog, Juliet Jopson and IfG Academy’s Catherine Haddon and Katie Thorpe dive into the political side of policy engagement. They argue that understanding the political world that MPs inhabit, and how that impacts on what they do, can transform how you engage with MPs and other political actors 👇 https://lnkd.in/eDU3pueh

🧠 New research from https://ow.ly/Ah6y50TTA4X has analysed both Donald Trump's and Kamala Harris' level of reading age – and Trump's reading age may, or may not, shock you. 👉 https://ow.ly/Zz5G50TTA4Y

For our Research Methods and Policy Analysis course this semester, my team and I are investigating Dalhousie University students’ perceptions of police legitimacy, trustworthiness, and efficacy, and whether these perceptions are shaped by social media usage. If you are (a) a current Dalhousie student AND (b) currently live in the Halifax Regional Municipality, please consider taking part in this survey and sharing with your peers! Here's the link to the survey: https://lnkd.in/enJxZztE

Good morning #HigherEd: This weekend I spent some time reading the work of Ruth Ben-Ghiat (https://lnkd.in/ekg4D_dF) . She's a scholar on authoritarian governments and Italian history (the birthplace of fascism). In one of her recent newsletters, she wrote about a new, non-partisan coalition of governors joining together to protect democracy. They are disobeying, collectively, in advance. (https://lnkd.in/eWudUtPn) This morning, I woke up to #HigherEd commentary about leaders concerned with how they'll support their students in the face of anticipated deportation raids. The title of the article includes the phrase "tread carefully." (https://lnkd.in/eBMHTVCh) Might I humbly suggest that we all use some of our precious time and energy to encourage our #HigherEd executive leaders to stop trying to do this work alone and to start forming coalitions to protect democracy, both on and off campus? Might I humbly suggest that now is not the time to tread carefully, but to mindfully, clearly, with self-care and collective care at the forefront, disobey in advance? Would it be all that radical for college presidents to assert that they will not support deportations and that they will support free elections? We, the everyday leaders who don't hold executive positions, can support this by sending emails, adding the topic of protecting #democracy and each other to meeting agendas, and encouraging our student journalists and activists. May it be of benefit.

As the election approaches, we're highlighting books like DEEP IN THOUGHT by jason baehr and PREPARING LEADERS FOR DEEPER LEARNING by Marjorie E. Wechsler and Steven Wojcikiewicz, which examine how to foster empathy and critical thinking in schools: https://bit.ly/4dthj6k

We know teaching the events of January 6, 2021—which are not a “moment,” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar, yet unusually urgent, challenge: how can students use historical knowledge and thinking to understand recent crises? Here are some resources that might help.

Why is the public losing faith in our justice system and what can we do to restore their confidence? This report culminates a two-year project where we have conducted national polling and numerous focus groups to answer these two critical questions. In exploring this complex issue, the Trust in Justice Project probed into the cultural and systemic challenges that we face as a society in understanding and improving our justice system. This report discusses the experiences of real people in their encounters with our system as well as the influence of the media, rhetoric, and propaganda on our national psyche. The report also provides a series of improvements that will serve to restore the public’s trust in this important system in our democracy. https://lnkd.in/gf3fCQ4Y

We know teaching the events of January 6, 2021—which are not a “moment,” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar, yet unusually urgent, challenge: how can students use historical knowledge and thinking to understand recent crises? Here are some resources that might help.

🚨 Dr Ulrich Sedelmeier has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy on "The Multi-level Politics of Countering Democratic Backsliding." The co-editors’ introductory article, "The multi-level politics of countering democratic backsliding: the state of the art and new research directions," explores the causes of the EU’s shift from a decade of inaction to a more assertive stance in combating democratic backsliding and its domestic impacts on affected member states. 📖🔍 🔗Read the full introduction to learn more and discover new avenues for future research: https://lnkd.in/dDq2GcpD