Democracy

Citizens’ assemblies will not be a silver bullet for the climate crisis.

For proponents of deliberative democracy, today’s representative regimes offer nothing more than illusion.

Avoiding alarmism and complacency, these infographics show us how democracies have coped under crisis.

Silja Kudel asks how far women’s participation in politics has taken Finland on the road to an equal society.

An interview on the critical infrastructure on which our democracies are built and its transformation.

Shahin Vallée and Franziska Brantner debate European democracy, transnational politics, and the meaning of sovereignty.

As the movement that politicised the relationship between society and nature in the West, green politics is at the forefront of not just democracy’s defence, but its reinvention.

Are the charges of being undemocratic that are consistently levelled at the European Union justified?

The Conference on the Future of Europe can kickstart the constitutional development of the EU if citizens are heard.

Female activists have been at the forefront of protests in Belarus, in marked contrast to the patriarchal culture that has long been entrenched in Belarusian political life.