State Capacity, Technology and the Future of Democracies

Paul Krugman’s piece is worth reading: Donald Trump and His Team of Morons

www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/opinion/government-shutdown-trump.html

Extract from The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team

Related:

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-the-fifth-risk-by-michael-lewis

Safeguarding democracy by DAVID HOWELL

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/15/commentary/world-commentary/safeguarding-democracy/

“Disinformation has become a world currency — and a cheap one, too, allowing not just weaker nations but sinister hacking groups of no known allegiance to undermine and confuse facts and truth. Maximum disrupting impact on a country can now be achieved by a hostile source at minimal cost. And the interference may not stop at opinion shaping and peddling fake news, but be carried electronically into the actual mechanisms of vote casting and recording.”