Research Digest

Table of Contents

Scholarship of Interest

• Lührmann, Anna, Seraphine F. Maerz, Sandra Grahn, Nazifa Alizada, Lisa Gastaldi, Sebastian Hellmeier, Garry Hindle, and Staffan I. Lindberg. Autocratization Surges–Resistance Grows: Democracy Report 2020. March 2020 ed. Gothenberg, Sweden: Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem), 2020.

NICD and Network Member Spotlight

• 2019 NICD Program Highlights
• Expert explains to CNN how right-wing media’s response to coronavirus is “really problematic”
• A year after a sorry attack on a conservative speaker, is UMKC all-in on free speech?
• Agreeing to disagree: How can we put civility back into civic discourse?

Popular News and Opinion

• Partisanship has no place in managing the coronavirus outbreak
• Red and Blue America Aren’t Experiencing the Same Pandemic
• Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.
• Don’t Touch Your Face: Partisanship
• Civility, or civil war?
• What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful
• Red vs. Blue on Coronavirus Concern: The Gap Is Still Big but Closing