LA Review of Books - A Guide to Restoring Faith in Democracy
by Steven Lavine AMERICAN DEMOCRACY is in trouble as never before. In the past, there have been moments when democratic process and...
Laying the Foundations for Real Democracy
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- Jan 27, 2020
- 1 min
The State of 2020 - Podcast
Dr. Roslyn Fuller is interviewed about the US Presidential election on the State of 2020 Podcast: Episode 1 - Contenders For The...
- Jan 1, 2020
- 1 min
BBC Radio 4: Could an Ancient Athenian Fix Britain
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.
- 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...
- Oct 21, 2019
- 1 min
Counterpoint: Democracy and dog's eyes
Democracy has been a bit on the nose since the Trump presidential election and the Brexit referendum. Some things are 'just too important...
- 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
Forbes: Will Technology Kill Democracy—Or Reinvent It?
By Brook Manville Once upon a time, many thought the internet would spawn a digital democratic utopia: harmonious, boundary-spanning...
- 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 27, 2018
- 7 min
Scope Magazine: Democracy is Changing
Politics feels increasingly fractious, perhaps irrevocably broken. That is a blinkered view. The only thing that is certain is change,...
- 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...
- Jul 17, 2018
- 1 min
PodCast: What Am Direct Democracy?
The Olympics. Philosophy. Big marble statues of naked dudes wrestling. Lots of extraordinary things came from Ancient Greece, Direct...
- Dec 11, 2017
- 1 min
Documentary: When Citizens Assemble
Patrick Chalmers of of AllHandsOn has put together this documentary about the Citizens' Assembly on the 8th Amendment on abortion in...
- 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...
- Jan 8, 2017
- 7 min
Forbes Interview & Review: Time To Disrupt Our Powdered-Wig Democracy
Article by Brook Manville The January 2017 stock market is showing plenty of optimism, but the political sphere swirls with anxiety....
- 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,...