POLICY BRIEFS AND WORKING PAPERS

ISSUE BRIEFS ON MULTILATERALISM AND DEMOCRACY

Produced in the context of the collaborative project (2024-25) with the Kofi Annan Foundation. A series of expert thematic roundtables are organised in liaison with multilateral actors on the role of democracy responding to issues of global concern. The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, drawing on the expertise of its researchers, contributes to each roundtable through the production of an issue brief that provides the starting point for the discussions, as well as the roundtable’s outcome document.

Duberry, Jerome, Artificial Intelligence and Democracy, AHCD Issue Brief n. 02/24, September 2024. 

Outcome document of the Roundtable

Bullon-Cassis, Laura, Lutringer, Christine, Bellenot, Héloïse, Democracy and Climate, AHCD Issue Brief n. 01/24, April 2024.

Outcome document of the Roundtable Democracy and Climate: How to foster democratic practices for climate action?

 

POLICY BRIEFS

Mexi, Maria, Green and Digital Futures: Enabling Youth for ‘Just Transitions’, AHCD Policy brief n. 3/23.

Desai, Deval, Lutringer, Christine and Monti, Luciano (2023) Call for risk assessment of unspent public funds, AHCD and Luiss Policy Observatory, Policy Brief n. 2/2023.

Berrod, Frédérique, Lutringer, Christine et al. (2023) A pan-european strategy for the energy emergency, AHCD and Luiss School of Government Policy Brief n. 01/2023.

Bokhorst, David, Lutringer, Christine, Mexi, Maria, Monti, Luciano, Randeria, Shalini, Žarković, Jelena, Which pathways to respond to the energy crisis? Recommendations on EU financial instruments, AHCD Policy brief n. 1/22.

 

AHCD WORKING PAPERS

Chakraborty, Gorky, Chowdhury, Samik Roy, Sarkar, Amitabha, Recasting Citizenship: Predispositions to Non-Citizenship in South Asia,  Working paper No. 3, June 2024.

Juemarie Jiang, Casting Gender Light On Authoritarian Legality In China: An Inquiry Of Sentencing And Punishment In Rape Cases, AHCD Working Paper No. 2, November 2023.

Quiroga-Villamarín, Daniel, Radio Silences: “the Kidnapped Voices” And The Production Of Political Memory In Colombia (1994-2018), AHCD Working Paper No. 1, November 2023.

The AHCD Working Papers series is meant to publish early-stages and original research, particularly from early and mid career researchers. It seeks to convene conversations around the Centre’s key themes to build a transdisciplinary and global network of early-career researchers and more established scholars, and to provide constructive feedback to authors to help develop papers as a step toward publication in a peer-review outlet.

Most of all, we seek to offer an accessible and welcoming process that can help scholars learn about the academic publishing process in a professional, friendly, and supportive way.

We welcome submissions on themes related to democracy and democratic participation, threats to democracy, and autocracy. The series is multi-disciplinary, and seeks to attract contributions from diverse fields, including but not limited to anthropology, economics, history, international relations, law, political science, and sociology.

 

Submission guidelines

Papers will go through an initial round of review and selection by the Editor. Selected papers will go on to receive comments from our editorial board members. Our review process is unblinded, meaning that your identity will be known to the reviewers, and their identity will be known to you.

If you have a paper that you think might fit, please contact Editor or Co-Editor. We are happy to discuss whether your paper fits the scope of our call before submission.

What the series can offer you as a contributor:

  • A pre-review of your paper to determine if it is suitable for the series. At this stage we may request some initial revisions, or advise you to submit to another outlet.
  • If your paper is accepted to the series, we can then offer one round of constructive peer review from experts in the field, intended to strengthen your early-stages work and help prepare it for submission at a peer review journal.
  • Professional copy editing and proof reading.
  • Promotion via social media and the Institute’s webpage.

What we are looking for in terms of submissions:

  • Original research in the form of an article, of a minimum of 10,000 and maximum of 14,000 words (not including bibliography/works cited).
  • A willingness to take on constructive feedback to strengthen your paper.
  • Timely responses to editorial queries (selected papers will be asked to respond to comments.

Please note we may also use citation software (i.e., TurnItIn) to verify that citations have been used properly.

To submit a paper, email it to wpsdemocracy@graduateinstitute.ch