This article aims to discuss the mechanics of selective attention and if and how policy makers use this psychological concept by design. Selective attention, as well as its propensity to limit reasoning to the objects… [Read more]
Digitalisation & Technology
The Governance Post’s section on current and future developments on “everything digital” and the implications for society and governance.
Tech Sovereignty? The Unintended Consequences of Good Intentions
Western governments and technology platforms have imposed several policy and technical sanctions against Russia. The scale and severity of these sanctions might unintentionally accelerate calls for technology nationalism and undermine global efforts to govern digital… [Read more]
Post-COVID Building Blocks for Supply Chains
Fluorescent empty shelves, stocked only with anxiety, were the initial COVID-19 pandemic reality-check for many. Consumers and businesses were blindsided; their normal lives and operations shattered. The world immediately felt the fallout of disrupted supply chains, many of which have not yet recovered. So… [Read more]
How To Finish Off Disinformation Online
Media manipulation is anything but new. While every technological invention offered new ways to manipulate public opinion, democracies seem to be particularly ill-equipped to counter disinformation in the digital age. What can be done to… [Read more]
The Gig’s Up: Rolling Back Worker Protections in California
This piece is part of a novel collaboration between The Governance Post and The Paris Globalist, the international affairs magazine by students at Sciences Po in Paris, France. The onset of a global pandemic and… [Read more]
Spinning Out of Control: How Alternative Facts Changed the United States
He stands wearing a wrinkled white shirt, dark suit, and a slightly shaggy beard. An old Blackberry is in his right hand, a third cup of coffee in his left, a lot is on his… [Read more]
Online Homeschooling and Civic Participation in Lockdown: Unpacking Europe’s Digital Divide
In this unprecedented time, substantial inequalities in the use of the internet are depriving the young and the elderly of their fundamental rights to education, access to information and participation. As the Coronavirus relocates most… [Read more]
How Digital Giants Play Europe’s Tax Game: Why the European Union Needs a Unified Approach for Taxing the Digital Economy
Born-digitals, like Facebook and Google, are fooling Europe’s policymakers at their own game, as loopholes in the outdated European labyrinth of taxation have turned the hunters into the hunted. The century-old EU rules in place… [Read more]
Supervision or Suppression? How Content Moderation Can Uphold Racism
Content moderation protects our freedom of expression on the internet from morphing into anything dangerously sinister…or does it? Evan Yoshimoto (MPP 2021) exposes the racial undertones of online content moderation and its role in suppressing… [Read more]
Airbnb is Winning the Multi-Level Governance Game
While European cities seek to reign in commercial-style Airbnb rentals through stricter regulations, these efforts may be hamstrung by a recent decision in Europe’s highest court. Airbnb is now two-for-two in a game of multi-level… [Read more]