Review of "The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire" by Tim Schwab in the Irish Times As the festive...

Guest article on the Democracy in Africa (DiA) blog on "Principles of Digital Democracy - Theory and Case Studies". It is unfortunate...

Position paper (German) on the concept of citizens' assemblies and their negative impact on democratic institutions. Download the PDF here

DUKE LAW PROFESSOR Jedediah Purdy is a man with a plan for political reform, and he outlines this plan towards the end of his latest...

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...

Like many people, I have long struggled to fully understand wokeness and identity politics. Now, as a half-Spanish / South American...

Roslyn Fuller reviews Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy In 2016, Forbes placed Vivek Ramaswamy at No24 on its rich list of young American...

Roslyn Fuller reviews “I Have Nothing to Hide”: And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian. WHEN I STARTED...

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...

Roslyn Fuller examines the contemporary problem of narcissism, and why an individualistic outlook on life is a barrier to progress. From...

As the founder and operator of a civil society organization, I’ve often been astounded at calls to give NGOs a greater say in...

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 Life in 2016. Our...

"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...

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."...