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🦋 The ‘Fourth Theorist’ and the future of democracy  

October 3, 2025

How Hungary reframed LGBTQ Pride as a national security issue

September 30, 2025

🦋 On democracy’s 'Fourth Theorist' 

September 25, 2025

🌈 Anti-gender governance technologies in Georgia, and their Russian connection

September 23, 2025

🦋 Does our understanding of democratic consolidation have a male bias?

September 19, 2025
September 8, 2025

🦋 Plain democracy: reclaiming fundamentals in an age of democratic erosion

Agnieszka Pawłowska In the current climate of populist narratives, citizens need a clear message about democracy. Agnieszka Pawłowska draws inspiration from the notion of plain language. Here, she proposes that citizens should be provided with plain democracy, which would empower them to recognise, understand, and use the fundamentals of democracy Read more
September 8, 2025

How international aid inadvertently props up autocratic regimes

Guido Maschhaupt Many regard cash transfer programmes as cost-efficient tools to alleviate poverty across the Global South. But, as Guido Maschhaupt and Ahmed El Assal argue, in autocratic contexts, these programmes can have unintended – and politically significant – consequences. By supporting them, international aid donors may advertently bolster authoritarian regimes Read more
August 19, 2025

🎭 What the West gets wrong about democracy 

Mebratu Kelecha Western democratic ideals have been imposed upon former colonies around the world. In Africa, this imposition reveals liberal democracy’s contradictions. Mebratu Kelecha invites a radical reimagining, through decolonial praxis and epistemic rupture Read more
August 15, 2025

🌊 How Romania’s educational institutions resisted illiberal pressures

Gabriela-Elena Plăpămaru Amid rising illiberalism, Romanian democratic institutions face growing pressure. Gabriela Plăpămaru reveals how the traditional right tried to undermine Romania’s education sector — and how progressives responded with institutional resilience Read more
August 14, 2025

🦋 Shift happens: rethinking democracy research in times of crisis

Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann Democracy research must evolve. Citizens support democracy itself, but are growing disillusioned with democratic institutions. Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach and Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann say we need to rethink our frameworks. Here, they argue for broadening the empirical paradigm – shifting focus from procedural checklists to people’s own understandings of democracy – to better grasp today’s crisis Read more

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