Democracy

Rather than judging referendums as positive or negative, we should examine their distinctive political features and contexts.

It is time to let go of the assumption that democracy always leads to progressive outcomes.

Pavel Latushka, a key figure in Belarus’s opposition, discusses the movement for democracy with Roderick Kefferpütz.

David Graeber’s insights on the imagination and the practice of democracy have inspired many not just to see the world differently, but to seek to change it.

In studying real-world alternatives to state control and organisation via the market, Elinor Ostrom urges us to expand the notion of what democracy means.

Hannah Arendt work holds lessons on reinvigorating democracy in a time of corroded trust in political institutions, an emboldened far right, and ecological breakdown.

A photo essay by Sofia Cherici and Federico Ambrosini tells the story of how, for one Italian town, democracy is an ongoing struggle for justice and self-determination.

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.