Democracy is a key theme for , a research dissemination website based at Aarhus University. Nordics.info has published research on , and “” published during the US 2020 election.
Secondly, democracy is also a key theme of recent material published for young people between the ages of 16 and 30 years of age in the Nordic region. The editor of nordics.info, Nicola Witcombe, carried out a consultation in 2022 with students from across the Nordics to inform the content of a new part of nordics.info called the New Nordic Lexicon.
Democracy (and anti-democracy) came up, along with digitalization, (in)equality and climate change – among a host of other topics. This has resulted in material such as podcasts on , and , and a film on – all where young people interview researchers.
Other democracy-related material includes articles on “” by Anders Widfeldt from the University of Aberdeen, and “” by Bettina Lemann Kristiansen from Aarhus University.
Particular affinities between UiO:Democracy and its individual research projects, such as “Experiencing American Democracy” (ExAm), also exist. For example, 30% of readers of nordics.info come from the United States and one of our most popular articles is by Jan Eivind Myhre from the University of 51, and was translated from norgeshistorie.no.
If researchers from UiO:Democracy would like to disseminate their research via nordics.info, then please get in touch with editor Nicola Witcombe on nwitcombe@cas.au.dk.
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nordics.info originally grew out of Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World (ReNEW). UiO:Democracy’s precursor UiO:Norden was a part of ReNEW.
The New Nordic Lexicon is supported by Nordforsk and the A.P. Moller Foundation (A.P. Møller og Hustry Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal).