When Aid Fades: Impacts and Pathways for the Global Democratic Ecosystem
In January 2025, the United States (US) administration initiated a sweeping overhaul of foreign aid, closed USAID, consolidating it into…
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What Democracy Means for a Society’s Bottom Line
Democracy is in trouble. For nine consecutive years, more countries have suffered a weakening of democratic institutions than have experienced improvement –…
AmericasBarometer
The AmericasBarometer is the leading comparative survey on democracy and public opinion in the Western Hemisphere. Since 2004, the AmericasBarometer…
Civic Voices Digital Platform: Where Communities Organize for Change
A digital civic engagement hub that supports communities to deliberate, manage issues, mobilize, and interact with governance using tools, dialogue,…
Advocating AI in Pakistan’s Public Sector: Empowered Workforce for a Reformed Governance
AI is increasingly proving to be a game changer in resolving the long-standing governance challenges such as bureaucratic inefficiencies, sluggish…
The role of business in fighting impunity and corruption to protect environmental defenders
Environmental defenders are on the frontline of the fight against climate change, yet too often they pay with their freedom,…
Southeast Asian MPs to ASEAN: Denounce Myanmar Junta Sham Elections and Put Rohingya Humanitarian Crises at the top of Summit Agenda
As leaders gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the 47th ASEAN Summit, the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) urges…
Bending the Arc of Democracy
The Kettering Foundation was a headline sponsor for this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, held in what many consider to be…
Trump Administration Purging LGBTQ+ People From Public Jobs and the Public Memory
Running in 2024, Donald Trump and JD Vance made attacking LGBTQ+ people a central feature of their campaign. The then-candidates…
Women Are Leading Venezuela’s Fight for Democracy
On the morning of 10 October 2025, the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Kristian Berg Harpviken, placed a call…