Jan 29 1 min Spiked: The billionaire takeover of civil society As the founder and operator of a pro-democracy civil-society organisation, I’ve often been astounded at calls to give NGOs a greater say...
Jul 27, 2020 1 min Irish Times: I went from criticising how democracy was practised to having to defend it as a concept When I started researching democracy almost 15 years ago while writing my PhD at Trinity, many people expressed scepticism about my...
May 8, 2020 1 min Tha National Interest: The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts In this brief work, American sociologist Salvatore Babones makes the explosive argument that the most pressing threat of authoritarianism...
Dec 15, 2019 1 min LA Review of Books / Truthdig: Snowden: A Whistle-Blower Who Lived to Tell About It I GENERALLY CARE relatively little for the personal lives of people of note, but something that always nagged me just slightly about...
Nov 27, 2019 2 min IPPR: Beyond the ‘Populist’ Label Why it's time for progressive parties to embrace ‘populism’ One of the more common trends in the political commentary of past years is to...
Nov 22, 2019 1 min The UK in a Changing Europe: Why an election cannot replace a referendum There are certainly good reasons to view Britain’s upcoming 12 December election as a de facto second Brexit referendum – just look at...
Sep 27, 2019 1 min Spiked: In Defence of the People When I began to study democracy over a dozen years ago, few of the so-called cultural elite were in a rush to argue against it as a form...
Sep 8, 2019 1 min Financial Times: Ave Imperator? Boris Johnson owes a debt to the Romans What have the Romans ever done for us?” the actor John Cleese once asked, in a famous Monty Python sketch, before being forced to admit a...
Jul 26, 2019 2 min Unherd: Don’t be fooled by citizens’ assemblies There is no democracy without equal participation Over the past few years, it has become quite fashionable to speak of ‘threats to...
Jan 25, 2019 1 min Kommersant: The Price of the Issue Roslyn Fuller, Professor at the Solonian Democracy Institute, on the Irish Brexit test After a week of upheaval, when the House of...
Oct 21, 2018 7 min LA Review of Books: Democracy: The Best of the Worst? A Conversation with Paul Cartledge EDITOR’S NOTE: Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor with a background in the classics, published Democracy: A Lifein 2016. Our reviewer,...
Jul 17, 2018 6 min Village Magazine: Interview with Eleonora Evi - FiveStarMovement "We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at five stars" Roslyn Fuller interviews Eleonora Evi, MEP for Italy’s Five Star...
Nov 7, 2017 10 min LA Review of Books: Pirates, Democracy, and the Digital Revolution AS AMERICAN DEMOCRACY seems to take another downward bend in its own death spiral with each passing week, the United States might learn a...
Dec 13, 2016 4 min UNA-UK Magazine: Are the people always right? A discussion between Katy Collins and Roslyn Fuller: Katy Collin, PhD in international relations, School of International Service,...
Oct 31, 2016 12 min LA Review of Books: “Against Democracy” and “Against Elections”: Where Do We Go From Here? AS THE UNITED STATES APPROACHES a most divisive presidential election, it is hardly surprising to see an upsurge in literature proposing...
Sep 20, 2016 16 min Alternet: Heartbreaking Stories from Academia “What is education?” Ruth Wangerin asks me, when I Skype the sociology professor at her home in New York. “Is education a good for its...
Sep 15, 2016 5 min RT: Why a US presidential pardon for Edward Snowden is not such a crazy idea after all This Friday, Oliver Stone’s film 'Snowden' hits theaters. The release will be accompanied by a campaign that is focused on procuring a...
Jul 28, 2016 5 min OpenDemocracy: Using technology to inject the demos back into democracy The recent Brexit referendum revealed a deep societal rift about what the word ‘democracy’ means. To some, the term ‘democracy’ is...
Jun 21, 2016 14 min LA Review of Books: Democracy — Too Much of a Good Thing? ANDREW SULLIVAN’S RECENT New York magazine essay, Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic, rattled many a reader and provoked a...
Jun 9, 2016 11 min The Nation: Why Is American Democracy So Broken, and Can It Be Fixed? Few elections in the Western world offer the spectacle that is an American presidential race. While Brits tend to keep a stiff upper lip...
Jun 8, 2016 7 min Alternet: Post-Capitalism Utopia Is a Bit of a Farce One of Ireland’s thicker politicians recently made the rather bold claim that the country was in danger of becoming "a lawless utopia."...
May 15, 2016 6 min RT: 'Fantastically corrupt': Guess who decides? The recent anti-corruption summit hosted by David Cameron in London has sparked a debate about just what corruption is, but hasn’t come...
Feb 9, 2016 4 min TheJournal: You risk blowing your savings on a lifetime supply of pens when you run for elections How much you spend on your campaign still plays a large role in determining whether you win a seat , writes Roslyn Fuller. THE US AND...
Feb 6, 2016 6 min RT: 3 false claims MSM is making about the Assange case The mainstream media has fallen in line with the governments of the UK and Sweden to dispute the legitimacy and significance of the...
