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Building on democratic theory and the concepts of informational learned helplessness and selective exposure, we introduce a theoretical framework that connects ... Informational autocracies are replaced by democracies when the informed elites are too numerous to censor or co-opt. Abstract. We develop an informational ... Mar 5, 2020 ... Questions of data and democracy, not just data and dignity, must be at the core of our concern. author. Professor of Law, Yale Law School. I ... ... democratic governance: Associational, Economic, Electoral, Governing, Individual, and Informational. Global View. Type. Closing Event. Opening Event. Space. Abstract. Law; International Law; Political Information; Conspiracy Theories; Disinformation; Democratic Order; Fake News; Sovereignty; Non-Intervention; ... Mar 22, 2024 ... In democracies, however, the information environment must be open and free. To accommodate this difference, any definition of information ... Feb 21, 2020 ... A research scientist focused on fairness, transparency and accountability in artificial intelligence said, “The rise of fake news and ... This website is an initiative of the Voting Information Project (VIP), a partnership between state election officials and Democracy Works to connect voters. Jan 11, 2021 ... Leaving a void to be filled, information trolls were able to inoculate their supplementary materials into the media information system. In doing ... Information aggregation. Elections. Representative democracy. 1. Introduction. Why democracy? A prominent justification is its superior ability to channel the ...