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Nicole Curato

Australia

Nicole Curato is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra.

Nicole Curato is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She is the recipient of the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship for her work on democratic innovations in post-disaster contexts.

Curato specialises in ethnographic research among communities experiencing depravity and dispossession and has published extensively in sociology, politics and policy journals.

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Democracy and Civil Society
(2019)
It seems that democracy has lost its efficiency and legitimacy. This feeling contrasts sharply with the expectations of 1991 at the end of the Cold War. In the social sciences, democratization processes were a rapidly growing field of expertise. Twenty-five years later, the situation has been reversed.
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