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LP-151 Russian Interference & Kompromat: Protecting US Midterms & UK Council Elections

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Election Interference Democracy’s Firewall LP-151 examines the evidence and safeguards for US and UK elections: Russian interference, kompromat, political finance, disinformation and election vulnerabilities and suggests evidence-based safeguards for US and UK democracy. The current UK government response explicitly describes foreign financial interference as an evolving threat and is implementing measures concerning overseas donations, corporate donations, cryptoasset donations and online political advertising. However, there is substantial, high-quality evidence that Russia has used a multi-layered interference model against Western democracies, including the United States and United Kingdom. However, the evidence needs to be separated carefully into established facts, intelligence assessments, credible allegations, and claims that remain unproven. The most important correction is this:  there is strong evidence for Russian cyber operations, covert influence, disinformation, pol...
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LP-145: Theory of Democratic Accountability | Why Legitimate Power Must Always Remain Answerable

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Theory of Democratic Accountability LP-145: Theory of Democratic Accountability | Why Legitimate Power Must Always Remain Answerable Discover an evidence-based theory of democratic accountability showing why legitimate public power must remain transparent, answerable, scrutinised and open to correction. LP-145 – Theory of Democratic Accountability explains why democracy requires more than elections. It presents an evidence-based framework showing how authority, transparency, scrutiny, answerability, correction and proportionate consequences work together to create legitimate, trustworthy and accountable public power. 1. THE CENTRAL QUESTION Democracy is commonly understood as the process by which citizens choose representatives. But elections alone do not constitute democratic accountability. A deeper question follows: What makes the exercise of public power democratically answerable to the people affected by it? LP-145 develops a Theory of Democratic Accountability around that questio...
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