The core idea of representative democracy is that leaders maintain a comprehensive vision of politics, surveying how different realms of policy interact with each other and acting in accordance with their conscience. Ultimately, the trade-offs… [Read more]
Tag: covid-19
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]
Open Letter to the Hertie Administration: The COVID pandemic illuminates the need for a global understanding of policy
Dear Hertie Administration, In the 2019/20 academic year, several students requested course content cognisant of the policy approaches from Asia and Latin America — continents where Hertie draws more than 30% of its students from.… [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]
Transnational Sister Solidarity? How Covid-19 Sheds Light on the Invisible 99%
Covid-19 has indiscriminately shed light on the most vulnerable, undervalued, and underpaid of our society: migrant women working in the care sector. A new regime of inequality is observed at home, one between women –… [Read more]