Democracy

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.

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.

Ece Temelkuran warns of the signs of creeping authoritarianism.

The government has exploited cultural issues to the detriment of democratic rights and norms, putting already vulnerable groups further at risk.

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.

What does the latest flare-up of tensions in Northern Ireland tell us about progress towards reconciliation?