by Steven Lavine AMERICAN DEMOCRACY is in trouble as never before. In the past, there have been moments when democratic process and democratic guarantees hav...

Dr. Roslyn Fuller is interviewed about the US Presidential election on the State of 2020 Podcast: Episode 1 - Contenders For The Democratic Nomination Episod...

Interview with Dr. Roslyn Fuller in episode 2 and episode 3 of Could an Ancient Athenian Fix Britain, hostef by Jon Harvey on BBC Radio 4.

I GENERALLY CARE relatively little for the personal lives of people of note, but something that always nagged me just slightly about Edward Snowden’s 2013 re...

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 attempt to separate...

There are certainly good reasons to view Britain’s upcoming 12 December election as a de facto second Brexit referendum – just look at the central position t...

Democracy has been a bit on the nose since the Trump presidential election and the Brexit referendum. Some things are 'just too important to be decided by th...

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 of government. After...

By Brook Manville Once upon a time, many thought the internet would spawn a digital democratic utopia: harmonious, boundary-spanning decision-making, reflect...

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 long list of improv...

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

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

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

Politics feels increasingly fractious, perhaps irrevocably broken. That is a blinkered view. The only thing that is certain is change, not ruin. Democracy - w...

"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 Movement [5SM] which has...

The Olympics. Philosophy. Big marble statues of naked dudes wrestling. Lots of extraordinary things came from Ancient Greece, Direct Democracy being chief am...

Patrick Chalmers of of AllHandsOn has put together this documentary about the Citizens' Assembly on the 8th Amendment on abortion in Ireland as part of a lar...

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

Article by Brook Manville The January 2017 stock market is showing plenty of optimism, but the political sphere swirls with anxiety. People—of all partisan s...

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