Democracy is a key theme for nordics.info, a research dissemination website based at Aarhus University. Nordics.info has published research on Iceland’s efforts to create a new constitution through consultative practices, the challenges to democracy in the 1990s and “Nordic social democracy in US politics” 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 how young people should and can inform urban planning, and gender equality, and a film on ?land’s autonomy – all where young people interview researchers.
Other democracy-related material includes articles on “Populism and the Growth of the Radical Right in the Nordic countries” by Anders Widfeldt from the University of Aberdeen, and “Access to Justice and Digitalisation – a Nordic perspective” 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 Emigration from Norway, 1830-1920 by Jan Eivind Myhre from the University of Oslo, 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. M?ller og Hustry Chastine Mc-Kinney M?llers Fond til almene Formaal).