LA Review of Books: The United States Is Not a Democracy
Recently featured on the LA Review of Books as one of the best articles in LARB's 10 year history in the category of Law, in this article...
Laying the Foundations for Real Democracy
Roslyn Fuller
- Aug 31, 2021
- 1 min
Book Review: Why the Corporate World went Woke
Roslyn Fuller reviews Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy In 2016, Forbes placed Vivek Ramaswamy at No24 on its rich list of young American...
- Aug 31, 2021
- 1 min
Book Review: A Call to Re-Embrace Our Privacy
Roslyn Fuller reviews “I Have Nothing to Hide”: And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian. WHEN I STARTED...
- Aug 25, 2021
- 1 min
The Irish Times: Remote work can put commuters back into the community
Perhaps one of the most unexpected highlights of the pandemic has been how much those who are able to avail of working from home enjoy...
- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
Letters on Liberty - "Liberty in a Narcissistic Age"
Roslyn Fuller examines the contemporary problem of narcissism, and why an individualistic outlook on life is a barrier to progress. From...
- Jan 29, 2021
- 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 28, 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 9, 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."...
- 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...
- Feb 6, 2016
- 4 min
The Irish Times: Democracy’s Beginning by Thomas Mitchell review: when democracy first ruled
These are tumultuous times for democracy. Syriza’s meteoric rise and partial fall was joined by one of the most statistically skewed...
- Jan 21, 2016
- 7 min
Alternet: How We Can Overcome Oligarchy Disguised as Democracy
As many countries show, technology can bring decision making closer to the voters. He who says organization, says oligarchy. So wrote...