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...

When I started researching democracy almost 15 years ago while writing my PhD at Trinity, many people expressed scepticism about my...

In this brief work, American sociologist Salvatore Babones makes the explosive argument that the most pressing threat of authoritarianism...

I GENERALLY CARE relatively little for the personal lives of people of note, but something that always nagged me just slightly about...

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...

There are certainly good reasons to view Britain’s upcoming 12 December election as a de facto second Brexit referendum – just look at...

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...

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...

There is no democracy without equal participation Over the past few years, it has become quite fashionable to speak of ‘threats to...

Roslyn Fuller, Professor at the Solonian Democracy Institute, on the Irish Brexit test After a week of upheaval, when the House of...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor with a background in the classics, published Democracy: A Lifein 2016. Our reviewer,...

"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...

AS AMERICAN DEMOCRACY seems to take another downward bend in its own death spiral with each passing week, the United States might learn a...

A discussion between Katy Collins and Roslyn Fuller: Katy Collin, PhD in international relations, School of International Service,...

AS THE UNITED STATES APPROACHES a most divisive presidential election, it is hardly surprising to see an upsurge in literature proposing...

“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...

This Friday, Oliver Stone’s film 'Snowden' hits theaters. The release will be accompanied by a campaign that is focused on procuring a...

The recent Brexit referendum revealed a deep societal rift about what the word ‘democracy’ means. To some, the term ‘democracy’ is...

ANDREW SULLIVAN’S RECENT New York magazine essay, Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic, rattled many a reader and provoked a...

Few elections in the Western world offer the spectacle that is an American presidential race. While Brits tend to keep a stiff upper lip...

One of Ireland’s thicker politicians recently made the rather bold claim that the country was in danger of becoming "a lawless utopia."...

The recent anti-corruption summit hosted by David Cameron in London has sparked a debate about just what corruption is, but hasn’t come...

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...

The mainstream media has fallen in line with the governments of the UK and Sweden to dispute the legitimacy and significance of the...

These are tumultuous times for democracy. Syriza’s meteoric rise and partial fall was joined by one of the most statistically skewed...

As many countries show, technology can bring decision making closer to the voters. He who says organization, says oligarchy. So wrote...

I left Canada as a teenager over 15 years ago, first to study abroad, then to live and work in Europe. You get used to a lot of things...

National democracies today often present a bleak picture with fractured electorates dominated by minority parties that come to power...

Nearly one in every hundred people on Earth today has been forced to flee their home in search of safety elsewhere. The vast majority are...