Political Structures: Democracy

There is no such thing as the perfect society. There are no hard and fast rules on how to make it work for everyone. If we don't want to have thing...

The truth matters. Vital decisions made on our behalf require that the people in government are honest with the electorate. Vote for Honesty and Ge...

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilienceConventional wisdom holds that...

Under the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous ...

Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and ...

People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in...

Between the decline of the labor movement, the aftershocks of the falls of so-called actually existing socialism, and the long exile of even social...

'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo...

In recent years, the promises of the populist moment have faltered, as seen in the defeats of Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders, Jean-Luc Melenchon. In...

*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Jo...

Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming. The Times  This is a remarkable book with a chilling message. Guardian The Chinese Communis...

He who can change the Constitution controls the Constitution. So who does control the Constitution? The answer has always been: the people. The peo...

He who can change the Constitution controls the Constitution. So who does control the Constitution? The answer has always been: the people. The peo...

How violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic changeHow do democracies emerge? Shock to the System presents a novel theory of democr...

Focusing on the experiences of people in Russia and Ukraine, Staging Democracy shows how some national leaders' seeming popularity rests on local e...

Raphael Minder landed in Madrid in 2010 to cover Spain for The New York Times just as the dark clouds of the financial crisis were about to burst i...

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilienceConventional wisdom holds that...

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past...