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Make Knowledge-Driven Healthcare Your New Standard

Overcome barriers to leading care with clinical standardisation grounded in best practice.

Think Research empowers clinicians and healthcare organizations to deliver exceptional care by making evidence-based standardisation available at the point of care. Our solutions support improved decision-making across the care continuum and help you track, meet, and exceed quality improvement and strategic goals.

Our knowledge-based products are tailored to the healthcare and legal environment in the UK and Europe. We’re here to support your coronavirus pandemic response by ensuring your care decisions align with emerging COVID-19 best practice. With VirtualCare, our telemedicine platform, we can also support your efforts to reduce transmission risk.

Structured clinical knowledge

Reduce variation and align care with clinical best practice

Connected to value-based healthcare

Maintain delivery of care to changing payer standards

Turn data into actionable insights

Unlock insights with data capture and reporting

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Robust clinical solutions that deliver results

Provide cost-effective care that meets your clinical and administrative priorities with our digital healthcare solutions. Learn how our products modernise the delivery and management of healthcare through clinical standardisation, workflow efficiencies, and impactful cost-effective care.

Care Pathways

Care Pathways is a decision-support tool that uses research-based clinical knowledge to drive standardisation and exceptional care outcomes. Featuring an industry-leading library of reference pathways, Care Pathways reduces costs and unwanted variation in practice while supporting quality improvement across your department, hospital, trust, and health system.

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Core Features

  • Make best-practice care easier: Over 1,000 reference Care Pathways maintained to latest, evidence-based standards, including pathways for COVID-19.
  • Zero overhead: Our support team will customise clinical content and workflows to your needs
  • Connects to your infrastructure: Compatible with your existing Health Information System or deployable through our cloud platform

Drive progress on your quality improvement goals

  • Better align your care to local protocols and national guidelines
  • Standardise clinical decisions to best practice and reduce inappropriate ordering
  • Supports more efficient care and strategic health system priorities

VirtualCare

Reach patients remotely while providing comprehensive, high-quality care. VirtualCare is an award-winning and GDPR-compliant telemedicine platform enabling you to provide care through a web browser or easy-to-use smartphone application. Instead of requiring a clinic visit, deliver your care securely in less time. VirtualCare can assist you in safely treating patients with COVID-19 associated symptoms from their residence or care home.

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  • Flexible communication: Asynchronous chat messaging, real-time audio/video chat, and sharing of clinical documents such as prescriptions and lab results
  • Modular workflows: Easily adaptable to your needs with a range of triage, assessment, and workflow functionality developed with clinician feedback
  • Unlock clinical insights: Powerful analytics with vital reporting and data visualisation, helping you monitor patients

Deliver more care, more efficiently

  • Make the most of your office hours by providing care digitally in short amounts of time between normal visits or when convenient for you
  • Onboard in hours with easy integration with existing clinical information systems and batch patient invitations
  • Get immediate assistance with 24/7 helpdesk support from Think Research, winner of the 2019 Canadian Health Informatics Award for Patient Care Innovation

Progress Notes

Progress Notes is a clinical documentation tool providing clinicians an intuitive and structured way to record and access patient information. With integrated clinical knowledge and clinical support features, Progress Notes enhances the day-to-day documentation process while supporting the transition from handwritten paper note-taking.

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Discover how Progress Notes helped Wexford General Hospital successfully shift from paper to digital.

  • Turn clinical notes into actionable insight: Standardise documentation in a digital format that is structured and keyword-searchable
  • Protect patient privacy: Single GDPR-compliant cloud-based access point for patient documentation and profiles
  • Improve communication across teams: Evidence-based care plans embedded in notes and customised to workflow across units and departments

Save time and speed up patient hand-offs

  • Reduce note-taking time while increasing form completion rates
  • Quicker clinician insights and expedited patient hand-off between clinicians
  • Enable clinical standardisation and improved care outcomes at scale

eForms is a digital tool that records clinical information in a structured format while delivering new workflow efficiencies. In just a few clicks, clinicians can access the forms they need while the digital format generates time-saving efficiencies and new analytics insights.

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  • Painless digital transition: Fully customisable, pixel-perfect copy of any existing paper form
  • Accurate the first time: Ensures recorded information is accurate, legible, and completion accountable
  • Prepopulate forms with HL7 data: Provides automatic data population of hospital and patient information in forms

Eliminate paper forms and achieve greater strategic results

  • Cost-savings through eliminating paper form expenses, lowering form-completion time, and reducing error rates
  • Clinical content embedded in forms provides clinical guidance and supports standardisation
  • Real-time analytics insights into form data supports continued improvements and helps you identify issues early

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Tony Corkett

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Dr Sam Shah

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Dr Yvonne Smyth

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David Schmeler

Senior vice president, global sales, request a demo or contact us, how ireland tripled their roi with progress notes.

Learn how Ireland’s Wexford General Hospital used Progress Notes to improve workflow efficiency, deliver best-practice care, and triple their ROI.

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About Think Research

Think Research is a clinical content and technology company based in Toronto, Canada. We’re on a mission to structure the world’s healthcare knowledge and deliver it via connected technology solutions that make doing the right thing for your patients easy.

We’re proud to advance digital healthcare through our clinical standardisation solutions, which remove barriers to outstanding care.

Since our founding in 2006 by critical care clinician Dr. Chris O’Connor, we’ve grown to support over 2,200 client partners in delivering exceptional care on three continents.

With European offices in Ireland and the UK, our clinical staff ensure our solutions and clinical content align to local protocols, national health guidelines, and the problems that matter most to you.

Privacy is essential to our business and products. All Think Research products and cloud-based technology are GDPR compliant.

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Dr Yvonne Smyth, MB FRCPI MA

Dr Yvonne Smyth is currently a joint Cardiology & Acute Medicine consultant in University Hospital Galway and works privately in Bon Secours Hospital Galway. Her areas of interest include cardiovascular imaging and heart failure.

She undertook a subspecialty fellowship in Cardiovascular Imaging in the Cleveland Clinic USA and achieved level III board certification from the American Society of Echocardiography in 2008 and 2018. Dr Smyth graduated from NUIG in 1997. She has a MA in Healthcare Management, Diploma in Clinical Education and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.

David is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School, an honorary consultant in medicine for the older adult, a member of the UK Board of science and the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s medical academic staff committee. Clinically, he runs a community diabetes service for the older adult, works with the Chronic Fatigue Service team, and works as an in-patient stroke consultant.

In a pre-COVID world, his main research focus was the health of older adults; ensuring the right patient gets the right treatment. This includes population based research on pragmatic interventions, right down to mechanistic work exploring of benefits of medications which may offer the ability to repurpose drugs. He has performed the only study to date demonstrating the feasibility of individualizing targets for older adults across Europe. This has informed the new UK guidance document for the management of older adults with diabetes and frailty, of which he was lead author.

Since March 2020, he has been heavily involved in COVID-19. He is the Clinical Lead for COVID at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, and has both run the COVID wards and been part of the team that established the SW long Covid Service. He is the Chief investigator of a study looking at the genetics of long COVID, the BMA lead for long COVID, and has participated in the NHS Long-COVID taskforce and the APPG on the same subject.

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Chris collenette, vice-president, corporate development, eu & uk, david schmeler, senior vice president, global sales.

David Schmeler is a recognized leader in Canadian business, with a career spanning more than 20 years across healthcare, technology and transportation industries.

David has dedicated the past 13 years to supporting the Canadian healthcare market, launching communication and technology services for pharmaceutical firms and the broader healthcare professional community.

As head of global sales at subsidiary MDBriefCase, David manages joint ventures and drives the expansion of MDBriefCase’s online learning platform into new global markets.

Sinead Callinan, Director, Clinical & Client Services

Sinead is Think Research’s clinical advisor and programme manager with oversight of our EU and UK projects. With over 15 years experience in Irish healthcare, she is responsible for operations, product delivery and project success.

Sinead trained as a radiotherapist, graduating with a BSc. from Trinity College School of Medicine and has completed a master’s degree in Clinical Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Sinead has taught at a master’s level at the University of Dublin, Trinity College, where she is the Head of Clinical Sponsorship Oversight for their clinical research portfolio. Prior to joining Think Research, Sinead worked for IQVIA, a multinational bio-pharmaceutical contract research organisation.

Sinead has recently received a GDPR Certificate from the University of Groningen and has a certificate in advanced SNOMED-CT Clinical Coding implementation methodologies with the IHTSDO.

Joel Finlayson, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Acting Head of Sales

As Think Research’s leader for International Growth, Corporate Development, and Partnerships, Joel is responsible for developing our strategy for international markets and building the company’s global reach.

Joel joined Think Research in Toronto in 2019 after over 20 years in healthcare consulting and healthcare venture capital – more than half of which was spent overseas – in the Middle East, Africa, and the UK.

Joel has worked on major health system reform programs and is well-versed with the challenges health systems face globally: their struggles with access, quality and cost, and the opportunities for new technologies and reimbursement models to reach health system goals. Joel is leading our international efforts and is establishing a series of direct and indirect channels including putting in place partnerships with health systems, health technology providers, and payers in the UK, Australia, and in the Middle East and Africa.

Joel is on an extended secondment from iGan Partners, a major shareholder in Think Research.  He remains a Partner in the healthcare fund. Formerly, he was a Partner and Practice Leader with PwC in the Middle East. Prior to that, he was a career consultant at strategy consultancy Monitor Group. He is a Director of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and a Fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab in Toronto.

Dr Harpreet Sood

Dr Harpreet Sood is a non-executive director of Health Education England and a former Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer with NHS England. Previously, he was Senior Fellow to the CEO of NHS England. Harpreet trained as a clinical doctor at King’s College London and Imperial College Business School and practiced as a doctor in East London.

Following this he undertook a Masters Degree in Public Health (MPH) at Harvard University where he focused on international health policy and co-founded a digital health start-up. Harpreet was also a Deland Fellow in health policy and management at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Think Research is an Air Traffic Management and Airports consultancy based in Bournemouth, UK.

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Think Research is an Air Traffic Management and Airports consultancy based in Bournemouth, UK. We specialise in improving operational and regulatory performance of our clients using a range of analytical and modelling approaches coupled with our expertise on present and future operations, technology and policy in the ATM and Airport domains.

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We are currently recruiting for the following positions:

SENIOR ATM CONSULTANT

Location:  Bournemouth, UK.

Salary:  DOE

Description:  Due to company growth, we are seeking Senior ATM Consultants to join the team at our Bournemouth office. We are looking for candidates with knowledge of UK and European policy and regulation for Air Traffic Management, CNS, and/or airspace. Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years work experience at an aviation consultancy, an ANSP or regulator.

GRADUATE CONSULTANTS

Salary:  £24,000-£30,000 plus excellent benefits

Description:  We are looking for ambitious and passionate graduates to join our growing team of consultants. This is an exciting opportunity to work for an award-winning ATM & Airports Consultancy. The ideal candidates will have at least a degree level qualification (2:1 or above) in a numerate, analytical or engineering / aerospace discipline, excellent communication skills and eligibility to work in the UK.

ATM SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

Location:  Client Site, Fareham, Hampshire

Description:  We are looking for candidates to join our growing team working with one of our largest clients in Hampshire.  Working directly with the client on long term, high profile projects you will support the project team by having a detailed understanding of ATM based requirements capture and management processes. With an understanding of the engineering element to the ATM operation, you will also support the project team in translating the ATM/ ATC user needs into a language/process by which the Engineers can fully understand and adopt. Effective communication skills will be key to the role.

We are looking for candidates with at least 3 years work experience in either ATM Systems, with an ANSP, ATM Systems provider, regulatory body or within military ATM operations.

Candidates must have right to live and work in the UK. Successful applicants will be required to obtain UK security clearance and should therefore have lived continuously in the UK for the last 5 years.  Candidates from the EU are encouraged to apply providing they can demonstrate continuous residence in the EU for the last 5 years. We regret that we are unable to process visa applications for candidates from outside the EU.

SENIOR AIRPORTS CONSULTANT

Description:  Due to company growth, we are seeking Senior Airport Consultants to join the team at our Bournemouth office. We are looking for candidates with at least 3 years’ work experience, which could be in a variety of backgrounds in aviation consultancy, with an airport, working on airport projects within an ANSP, regulatory body or within military ATC operations.

Candidates should be knowledgeable in airport operations (understanding of airfield operations and ATC a bonus), related policy and regulations as well as having an excellent understanding of how airports, Air Traffic Management and airlines fits into the overall aviation industry.

SENIOR AIRPORT AND AIRSPACE MODELLING CONSULTANT

Salary: DOE

Description:  Due to company growth, we are seeking Senior Airport and Airspace Modelling Consultant to join the team at our Bournemouth office. Knowledge of industry standard simulation tools such as AirTOp, ArcPort or CAST would be advantageous. Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years work experience at an aviation consultancy, airport or ANSP.

AIRPORT AND AIRSPACE MODELLING CONSULTANT

Description:  We are looking for ambitious and passionate graduates to join our growing team of airport and airspace modellers. This is an exciting opportunity to work for an award-winning ATM & Airports Consultancy.  The ideal candidates will have at least a degree level qualification (2:1 or above) in operational research, data science or similar discipline, possess excellent analytical skills and have the ability to communicate technical results in a way our clients can relate to.  All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.

To find out more or to apply for one of these positions please visit our website:  https://think.aero/careers/

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Think Research is an independent ATM and Airports Consultancy specialising in concept development, systems deployment and performance improvement. We have a deep knowledge of operations across the ATM domain; encompassing current operational systems and implementations, through to future systems and concepts up to around the year 2035. We understand ATM systems – technically and operationally. We apply that understanding to help you achieve a benefit, whether it is a gain in capacity, efficiency, usability or any other performance area. We work with clients and their stakeholders to identify how their system needs to perform, and how we can make it happen. We have a proven track record and reputation having worked on some of the world’s biggest ATM projects with some of the world’s biggest ATM and Airport Stakeholders. Our expertise covers many of the concepts being developed and implemented in air traffic management today. Our work in the research and development of these concepts allows us to assist our clients worldwide to implement them more quickly, more cost effectively and more targeted to their local environment. As an independent consultancy, our ethos and values ensure our clients get innovation, quality, delivery, objectivity, agility, transparency and integrity.

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London Marathon: how visually impaired people run

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In this weekend’s London Marathon, nearly 50,000 runners will hit the capital’s streets in one of the world’s most iconic races. For the visually impaired (VI) runners on the start line, their approach to this famous route will differ from their sighted counterparts. Just as there are misconceptions about blindness itself, many people are confused about how VI people run.

Some assume that all VI runners are blind with no usable vision, have superhuman compensatory skills and are passively guided around running routes by sighted guides. The reality is that, like all runners, VI runners have diverse experiences, preferences and needs.

In our research , we’ve conducted in-depth interviews with eight blind and partially sighted runners about their running practices. Some navigate routes independently, while others run with a guide – using a tether, holding their elbow or running in close proximity.

VI running can be a rich and creative experience, engaging all the senses. But, as one of our participants stated, this process is not innate: “People say, ‘Oh your smell becomes better, your hearing becomes better’. I don’t think it does, I just think you tune into it a little bit more… it just becomes more of a natural thing.”

As research on the runner-guide partnership shows, it can take practice and trying different strategies for runners to make sense of their surroundings and figure out what works for them.

Through touch, hearing, smell and usable vision, VI runners actively develop unique relationships with the routes they run. Our participants described how they identify landmarks, such as the sound of a river or the feel of changing terrain, to construct maps inside their heads. As one runner explains: “I could subconsciously tell you where every crack on the pavement is.”

Barriers to running

With VI people being one of the most inactive minority groups, running can be inclusive , empowering and provide a range of social and physical benefits.

But there are a number of societal barriers to VI people getting and staying involved in running. Ableist assumptions about who can and cannot run, are frequently internalised by VI people themselves.

One of our participants, who is blind from birth, explained: “I’d never even considered running before really… I just thought I couldn’t do it.” Having acquired sight loss in adulthood, another participant said: “I thought I’d never be able to run again, which was a massive blow when I first started losing my sight.”

To combat these assumptions and spread awareness about opportunities, runners like Kelly Barton and her guides share running content online. A recent video of her 250th parkrun, which she completed without being tethered to a guide, attracted national media coverage.

Our participants reported struggling to find guide runners, who can support VI people to run safely by guiding them along a route using verbal instructions, tethers or physical contact.

One VI runner who owns a guide dog contacted a local running event for a guide and was told they “haven’t found a guide yet, but we’ve got a dog sitter”. While there are local groups connecting VI runners and guides in some areas, such as VI Runners Bristol , this is not consistent across the UK.

The challenge of finding guides was also exacerbated during the pandemic . In the US, an innovative project using guide dogs trained for running has led to positive outcomes for both runners and dogs . But such projects are not yet widespread and require additional training for the guide dogs.

For VI runners who prefer running indoors, the treadmills used in many gyms are inaccessible . The charity Thomas Pocklington Trust and UK Coaching are working to address this through the inclusive facilities toolkit .

How you can get involved

For many VI runners, including our participants, parkrun has become a popular place to get started. The event’s inclusive ethos and specific efforts to encourage VI runners have created a welcoming and accessible environment.

The Great Run Series has introduced VI runners challenges at the Bristol 10K and Manchester Half Marathon , the only dedicated events for severely sight-impaired runners and guides in the UK.

If you are in search of a guide, British Blind Sport and England Athletics operate a database to connect VI runners with guides licensed by England Athletics. And if you are a sighted runner thinking about becoming a guide, you can complete a sight loss awareness and guide running workshop to get listed on the database.

Prospective runners and guides can also connect informally through parkruns, running clubs, local VI organisations or running organisations like Achilles International .

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Who likes authoritarianism, and how do they want to change their government?

While most people see representative democracy as a good way to govern their country , large shares of the public in many countries are open to nondemocratic alternatives.

This Pew Research Center analysis on views of authoritarianism uses data from nationally representative surveys conducted in 24 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. All responses are weighted to be representative of the adult population in each country.

For non-U.S. data, this analysis draws on nationally representative surveys of 27,285 adults conducted from Feb. 20 to May 22, 2023. All surveys were conducted over the phone with adults in Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Surveys were conducted face-to-face with adults in Argentina, Brazil, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland and South Africa. In Australia, we used a mixed-mode probability-based online panel. Read more about international survey methodology .

In the U.S., we surveyed 3,576 adults from March 20 to 26, 2023. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way, nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP’s methodology .

We measure support for authoritarianism by looking at the share who said at least one of the following systems of government would be a good way of governing their country:

  • A system in which a strong leader can make decisions without interference from parliament or the courts (“authoritarian leader”)
  • A system in which the military rules the country (“military rule”)

We also draw upon the results of an open-ended question: “What do you think would help improve the way democracy in our country is working?” Researchers examined random samples of English responses, machine-translated non-English responses and responses translated by a professional translation firm to develop a codebook for the main topics mentioned across the 24 countries.

In this analysis, we focus on only two of these final codes: support for nondemocratic alternatives (coded in “Other” in the primary analysis) and change leadership. A forthcoming report will share more details on the coding process and the many other solutions people offered.

Bar chart showing that a median of 31% across 24 nations say an authoritarian system, including rule by a strong leader or the military, would be a good way of governing their country. Support tends to be higher in middle-income countries, and is highest in India, Indonesia and Mexico

Indeed, a median of 31% across 24 nations are supportive of authoritarian systems, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey . The survey asked about two authoritarian models of government: a system in which a strong leader can make decisions without interference from parliament or the courts (“authoritarian leader”) and a system in which the military rules the country (“military rule”).

The share of the public that supports at least one of these models ranges from 85% in India to 8% in Sweden. It tends to be higher in middle-income countries than high-income countries. It also tends to be higher in surveyed countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa or Latin America than in Europe and North America.

Who supports authoritarian systems?

In most of the 18 countries where we asked about ideology, people on the ideological right are more likely than those in the center or on the left to support authoritarian systems. For example, South Koreans on the right (49%) are nearly twice as likely as those on the left (28%) to support authoritarian systems. Meanwhile, 36% of centrists in South Korea support such systems.

Dot plot chart showing that in most of 18 countries surveyed, people on the ideological right are more likely than those in the center or on the left to support rule by a strong leader or the military

Across Europe, people who have favorable views of right-wing populist parties are also especially likely to support authoritarianism. In Germany, for example, 37% of those who have a favorable view of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) support these nondemocratic ways of governing, compared with 13% who have an unfavorable view of the AfD.

People with lower incomes also tend to be more supportive of authoritarian systems than those with higher incomes. This relationship exists in both high-income and middle-income countries (as defined by the World Bank ). For example, 47% of those with incomes below the median in the United Kingdom support authoritarian systems, compared with 27% of those with incomes at or above the median.

In a few countries, older and younger adults differ in their support for authoritarian systems. For example, 38% of Americans under age 30 support these nondemocratic alternatives, compared with 29% of those ages 50 to 64 and 26% of those 65 and older. In India and Australia, the pattern is similar. But in Greece, Japan and South Korea, older adults are more supportive of authoritarian systems than younger ones.

How does support for authoritarian systems relate to views of democracy?

A 2019 Center survey asked respondents to rate the importance of democratic values including a fair judiciary system, gender equality, regular elections, free speech, press freedom, freedom on the internet, and the ability for human rights organizations and opposition parties to operate freely. Across each of these dimensions, countries with smaller shares of people who say these values are important in their country have higher numbers who support rule by a strong leader or the military. 

A scatter plot showing that more people support authoritarian forms of government in countries where fewer say it is important that opposition parties can operate freely.

For example, in countries where fewer people say it is important that opposition parties can operate freely, there is more support for authoritarian systems of government. Indonesia displays this relationship well. Indonesians are the least likely of the 24 countries surveyed in 2023 to see free opposition parties as important in their country (47%). They are also among the most supportive of authoritarian systems (77%). 

On the other end of the scale, Swedes have one of the highest shares saying free opposition parties are important (93%) but the lowest share who support rule by a strong leader or the military (8%).

Across the surveyed countries, there is a similarly strong negative relationship between authoritarianism and the other democratic values.

What do those who support authoritarian systems think would fix their democracy?

We also asked an open-ended question about what would help improve the way democracy in their country is working. Notably, despite the relatively high support in some places for nondemocratic options, few people suggest overturning their system and replacing it with a nondemocratic alternative. Only in Greece, Israel and Spain did 1% volunteer this as their solution.

Among the small subset of respondents who did call for replacing their democracy with another system, the new system they would install varies:

  • Military rule: “Declare martial law and let the military take control.” – Man, 68, Greece
  • Expert rule: “By having experts on democracy to guide us who are not interested in politics.” – Woman, 30, Kenya
  • Autocracy: “Completely change the system to one where a strong leader rules the affairs here and is not subordinate to courts that were not elected nor represent the people.” – Man, 41, Israel
  • Theocracy: “It must be replaced by a theocracy. People should first live according to godly standards and love their neighbors, then you get a good society. Democracy, after all, is standing up for one’s own interests.” – Man, 63, Netherlands
  • Anarchy: “A society should be built that does not need a leader.” – Man, 28, India
  • Revolution: “It would take a coup d’etat. After peace we need war, after war there will be reconstruction. We need to reset all privileges and start over in full respect of people.” – Man, 63, Italy

Still, those who support authoritarian systems and those who do not differ on which solutions they think will help fix their democracy.

First, supporters of authoritarianism are much less likely than nonsupporters to offer any solution or idea in about half the countries polled.

Second, in some countries, those who support authoritarian systems are more likely than nonsupporters to mention economic issues. For example, two people who support authoritarian systems in the UK and Australia both focused on personal economic struggles and nonresponsive politicians:

  • “They need to listen to the working class and the poorer classes. They should not think about profit first and instead focus more on homeless people and the veterans. We should use the money we pay in taxes for the NHS and emergency services and do more for families – affordable resources for child care, more affordable housing …” – Woman, 31, UK
  • “If the government actually took notice of how most people in Australia are having to live on limited savings. People living on pensions are struggling to even eat due to the low payments. People on pensions, especially disability pensions, are struggling to make ends meet. Most are living under the poverty line but the government just ignores this.” – Woman, 50, Australia

Third, in Brazil and Kenya, those who support authoritarian systems of government are more likely than nonsupporters to suggest a total change of leadership. In Brazil, for example, authoritarian-system supporters are about twice as likely as nonsupporters to want to replace President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva or other governing officials in Brazil.

People expressed such sentiments as “Get President Lula and his gang out of power” and “Change current governors and start all over again.”

The opposite is true in Israel, though: Those who do not support authoritarian systems are more likely to call for leadership changes. (The survey was conducted during a wave of protests against judicial reform and prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.)

These nonsupporters argued that democracy in Israel would be improved if they “prevented Bibi Netanyahu, who has been accused of crimes, from being elected as prime minister or to any other public position” or by “Removing the dictator Netanyahu from his seat.”

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Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, AP-NORC poll shows

The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds.

Only about one-third of U.S. adults say Trump did something illegal in the hush money case for which jury selection began Monday, while close to half think he did something illegal in the other three criminal cases pending against him. And they’re fairly skeptical that Trump is getting a fair shake from the prosecutors in the case — or that the judge and jurors can be impartial in cases involving him.

What to know about Trump’s hush money trial:

  • Trump will be first ex-president on criminal trial. Here’s what to know about the hush money case.
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Still, half of Americans would consider Trump unfit to serve as president if he is convicted of falsifying business documents to cover up hush money payments to a woman who said he had a sexual encounter with her.

While a New York jury will decide whether to convict Trump of felony charges, public opinion of the trial proceedings could hurt him politically. The poll suggests a conviction could hurt Trump’s campaign. Trump enters a rematch with President Joe Biden as the first presumptive nominee of a major party — and the first former president — to be under indictment. A verdict is expected in roughly six weeks, well before the Republican National Convention, at which he will accept the GOP nomination.

Trump has made the prosecutions against him a centerpiece of his campaign and argued without evidence that Biden, a Democrat, engineered the cases. That argument helped him consolidate GOP support during the Republican primary, but a conviction might influence how many Americans — including independent voters and people long skeptical of Trump — perceive his candidacy.

FILE - Judge Juan M. Merchan poses in his chambers in New York, March 14, 2024. On Friday, April 19, 2024, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming Merchan told former President Donald Trump on the first day of his hush money case that he can’t attend his son Barron’s May 17 high school graduation because he must be in court that day. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

“Any conviction should disqualify him,” said Callum Schlumpf, a 31-year-old engineering student and political independent from Clifton, Texas. “It sets a bad example to the rest of the world. I think it misrepresents us, as a country, as to what we believe is important and virtuous.”

Yet, a cloud of doubt hangs over all the proceedings. Only about 3 in 10 Americans feel that any of the prosecutors who have brought charges against Trump are treating the former president fairly. And only about 2 in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident that the judges and jurors in the cases against him can be fair and impartial.

“It’s very obvious political persecution,” said Christopher Ruff, a 46-year-old political independent and museum curator from Sanford, North Carolina. “I’m no fan of Trump in any way, shape or form. Didn’t vote for him, never will. But it’s obviously all political.”

Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan criminal court with his legal team in New York, April 15, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/Pool Photo via AP)

Consistent with AP-NORC polls conducted over the past year, the new poll found that about half of Americans say Trump did something illegal regarding the classified documents found at his Florida home , and a similar share think he did something illegal regarding his alleged attempt to interfere in Georgia’s vote count in the 2020 presidential election . The poll also found that nearly half of Americans believe he did something illegal related to his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election .

Prosecutors in New York will argue that Trump falsified his company’s internal records to hide the true nature of a payment to his former lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen alleges he was directed by Trump to pay adult film actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 one month before the 2016 election to silence her claims about an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 34-count indictment and denied any sexual encounter with Daniels.

The poll found that 35% of Americans say Trump has done something illegal with regard to the hush money allegations. Slightly fewer, about 3 in 10, think he did something unethical without breaking the law. Fourteen percent think he did nothing wrong at all. Those numbers haven’t shifted meaningfully in the year since he was first charged in the case.

Republicans are much less likely than Democrats and independents to say Trump committed a crime in the hush money case.

“He’s done nothing wrong,” said Louie Tsonos, a 43-year-old sales representative and Republican from Carleton, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. “Because Trump has a lot of money and fame, they want to destroy his reputation. Or at least they are trying to.”

Fewer than one in 10 Republicans say Trump did something illegal in the case, while 4 in 10 Republicans think he did something unethical but did not break the law. About 3 in 10 Republicans, like Tsonos, say he did nothing wrong.

By contrast, about 6 in 10 Democrats and roughly 3 in 10 independents believe he did something illegal.

Monica Brown, a Democrat from Knoxville, Tennessee, thinks Trump did something unethical, though not illegal, in the New York criminal case under way. But a conviction would ruin his credibility to serve as president, she said.

“I don’t believe any president – whether it’s Donald Trump or anyone else – should have a criminal conviction on his record,” said Brown, a 60-year-old veterinary technician and social worker. “Even if it’s related to something like hush money, what respect are they going to get from anyone? Citizens of the country or world leaders, they aren’t going to respect you.”

Nearly 6 in 10 Republicans say they would consider Trump fit to be president even if he were to be convicted of falsifying business documents in the hush money case. About 8 in 10 Democrats say Trump would not be fit to serve in the event of a conviction. About half of independents think he would be unfit to serve, with 22% saying he would be fit and 30% saying they didn’t know enough to say.

“I don’t think any of that stuff has any relevance to his ability to lead this country,” said Jennifer Solich, a Republican from York, Pennsylvania, and retired nuclear engineer who believes Trump would be fit to serve if convicted in the New York case. “There may be some unethical aspects to it. I just think it’s more trivial than what we’re facing as a nation.”

Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa.

The poll of 1,204 adults was conducted April 4-8, 2024, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

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Drawing the line: how us jewish college students think about antisemitism.

Graham Wright , Sasha Volodarsky ,  Shahar Hecht , and Leonard Saxe

In our December 2023 report , we documented the level of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hostility on 51 US campuses since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. One question prompted by our findings was how Jewish students “draw the line” between acceptable political discourse and antisemitism. Guidelines developed to define antisemitism (IHRA, NEXUS, JDA) agree that while criticism of Israel is not necessarily antisemitic, particular statements can be, depending on the broader context. This report explores which forms of anti-Israel sentiments are viewed by Jewish college students as “crossing the line” into antisemitism, including critical statements about Israel that have received attention during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The findings are based on survey data collected in November-December 2023 from more than 2,000 Jewish undergraduate students at 51 US colleges and universities with large Jewish student populations. 

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Key Findings

  • Even in the intense period soon after October 7, Jewish college students had relatively nuanced views about what constituted antisemitism. There was near universal agreement that claims that “Jews have too much power” or that “Israel has no right to exist” were antisemitic. At the same time, most of our Jewish respondents did not consider the claim that Israel violated the human rights of the Palestinian people to be antisemitic.
  • Similarly, the vast majority of respondents felt that a popular phrase used by protest groups, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” was at least “probably” antisemitic, and most thought it was “definitely” antisemitic. Far fewer felt the same way about other provocative criticism of Israel, such as that it is an “apartheid state” or is committing “genocide.”
  • Respondents who were more favorable toward the Israeli government, or who had a stronger emotional connection to Israel, were more likely to consider these statements antisemitic. However, even among respondents with unfavorable views of the Israeli government and/or limited emotional connections to Israel, many viewed some of these statements, such as the slogan “from the river to the sea,” as antisemitic. 
  • By and large, these Jewish students’ strong ties to Israel did not preclude them from having unfavorable views toward the Israeli government, nor did their negative view of Hamas spill over into apathy toward the lives of the Palestinian people. Respondents expressed very high levels of concern about the lives of Israelis and the lives of Palestinians in Gaza.

Takeaways and Implications

  • The vast majority of Jewish students view denying Israel’s right to exist as antisemitic . Campus administrators should be aware that statements calling for Israel’s destruction are seen as calls for the murder of Israelis and considered antisemitic by the vast majority of Jewish students, including those who are critical of Israel’s government.
  • Most Jewish students see the slogan “from the river to sea” as antisemitic.  Although many critics of Israel who use this slogan view it as a call for equal rights, most of the Jewish college students in our study appear to understand the statement as reflecting a  de facto  call for the elimination of Israel, or as reflecting solidarity with Hamas’s attacks on Jewish civilians.
  • Jewish students differ among themselves about whether calling Israel an “apartheid state” or accusing it of "genocide" rise to the level of antisemitism.  Understanding  why  Jews might see these statements as being antisemitic in certain contexts (but perhaps not in others) is important for facilitating productive dialogue.
  • Variations in the campus climate with regard to antisemitism is not merely a function of Jews at certain campuses being especially “sensitive” to antisemitism . Regardless of their own views about Israel and their own operational definitions of what constitutes antisemitism, Jewish students see antisemitism related to criticism of Israel as a serious problem.
  • For most Jewish students, there is no inherent conflict between being emotionally connected to Israel and being critical of the Israeli government . It should be possible to facilitate respectful discussions about Israel that leave space for intense criticism without causing serious offense to Jews who see Israel as an important part of their identity. Inhibiting students’ ability to express criticism of Israel and its actions may further isolate Jewish students from one another and from their non-Jewish peers.

This report is the second in a series aimed at identifying evidence-based strategies for effectively responding to antisemitism on campus.

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1. A civil war for the silver screen

Civil War, the new A24 film from British director Alex Garland, imagines a scenario that might not seem so far-fetched to some; a contemporary civil war breaking out in the United States.

In this world, the U.S. has split into various factions. The president, played by Nick Offerman – has given himself a third term, and he's hoping to fend off an assault from one of the more powerful groups.

In what might seem like the most unbelievable narrative twist, California and Texas form an alliance to become the "Western Forces" and fight against Offerman's regime. Sure, I guess!

Some independent candidates start their own political parties to ease ballot access

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2. how far are we from reality.

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello says the movie doesn't do a lot of explaining to help us understand how the U.S. got to this moment. But he says that makes it stronger.

"What became much more interesting in the moment was what it looks like to transpose things that we've always associated with other countries – the bombed out helicopters and things like that – to place that in a J.C. Penney parking lot."

And while the film has taken heat for little mention of politics, the question of an actual civil war has everything to do with it.

Polling has shown a significant minority thinks a civil war is at least somewhat likely in the next 10 years. So what do the experts say?

'Civil War' is a doomsday thought experiment — that could have used more thinking

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'civil war' is a doomsday thought experiment — that could have used more thinking, 3. division in the u.s..

Amy Cooter is a director of research at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Her work has led her to the question that Garland's movie has put in the minds of both moviegoers and political pundits: Could a second civil war really happen here?

Cooter wants to make one thing clear: "I don't think that civil war is imminent, but I think there are some people who wish we would have one, and wish that they could be effectively culture soldiers to re-enact a civil order that they see as better for them and their families."

In her studies of militias and political extremists, Cooter has observed a movement of groups similar to those who joined in on the January 6th riots who feel disconnected from the current political moment, or perhaps want to return to a previous version of society, that they feel served them better.

And while Cooter doesn't think a civil war will be happening anytime soon, she does say this:

"I think we are at a moment of extreme political division that may get worse before it gets better."

This episode was produced by Marc Rivers. It was edited by Jeanette Woods, Jonaki Mehta and Courtney Dorning. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.

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