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🔮 How early insights about populism have stood the test of time

March 31, 2023

🦋 What do people mean when they say they support democracy – and why should we care?

March 30, 2023

The dilemma of postal voting

March 30, 2023

The threat of artificial intelligence is not just real, it’s here

March 29, 2023

🔮 Social media: populists’ partners in crime

March 29, 2023

March 31, 2023

🔮 How early insights about populism have stood the test of time

The more populism has evolved and the more we have learned about this supposedly elusive and contested concept, the more we recognise that the early insights we gained about the phenomenon have stood the test of time. Reinhard Heinisch argues that although these early lessons already pointed to the importance of credible change agency, ambiguity, and territoriality as crucial features for populism's success, their role is still not fully understood

March 30, 2023

🦋 What do people mean when they say they support democracy – and why should we care?

Amid concerns of declining support for democracy worldwide, recent research points to a way forward. Hannah Chapman, Margaret Hanson, Valery Dzutsati, and Paul DeBell show that how people define democracy influences their support for it

March 30, 2023

The dilemma of postal voting

Postal voting is praised for its ability to lower the costs of electoral participation. However, Miroslav Nemčok and Johanna Peltoniemi argue that postal voting has its limits. If voters doubt their ballots will make it to the ballot box uncompromised, they are unlikely to exercise their democratic right

March 29, 2023

The threat of artificial intelligence is not just real, it’s here

The technologies of generative artificial intelligence and large language models, and their associated algorithms, are increasingly shaping our everyday lives. Avery Reyna argues that the constant need to develop groundbreaking technologies will turn these seemingly abstract algorithmic harms into real-life consequences felt by everyone across the globe

March 29, 2023

🔮 Social media: populists’ partners in crime

Social media play a key role in amplifying populist messages. The resulting misinformation, political polarisation, and the proliferation of hate speech, pose challenges for democracy. Laura Jacobs steps into the populist echo chamber

March 28, 2023

Is the SNP a vanguard for Scottish independence?

The current crisis around the Scottish National Party leadership centres on the party's position as a vanguard for Scottish independence, writes Ruairidh Brown. It could subsequently mark a watershed moment in the independence movement

March 28, 2023

💊 Misinformation, democracy, and the peace journalism solution

Mis- and disinformation are an existential threat to democracy. Steven Youngblood shows how the principles of peace journalism can combat its corrosive effects

March 27, 2023

Macron’s gamble on pensions reform

The French President has pushed through his signature reform of the French pensions system against widespread opposition. Yet, argues Giovanni Capoccia, the fight is not over, and the stakes are high – and not just for France

March 24, 2023

📐 Surveying the landscape of human rights data

Accurate data are needed to track human rights performance worldwide. But the range of different data sources available can be confusing, especially to non-experts. Anne-Marie Brook and Kobe Amos explain what qualities set Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) data apart

March 24, 2023

🦋 How to create meaningful democracy in our social lives

Peter Donkor argues that the democratisation of our social lives is contingent upon a democratic political sphere. Doubling down on 'spillover theory', he urges governments to lead bolder democratisation efforts to show how ever-more democratic procedures are, indeed, preferable to authoritarian regimes and authoritarianism at home, school, work and beyond

Latest Articles

🔮 How early insights about populism have stood the test of time

🦋 What do people mean when they say they support democracy – and why should we care?

The dilemma of postal voting

The threat of artificial intelligence is not just real, it’s here

🔮 Social media: populists’ partners in crime

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