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🎈 How a student citizens' assembly in France is reshaping a Parisian university 

January 12, 2026

How well do politicians understand what matters to voters?

January 6, 2026

🎈 Why elected elites might reach for democratic innovations 

December 30, 2025

🎈 Who elected Mark Rutte? Representation as political engagement 

December 22, 2025

🌈 Metapolitical digital wars on gender, race, and queer life 

December 19, 2025
December 17, 2025

🎈 When do citizens tolerate democratic violations? Lessons from Hungary’s pandemic emergency 

Zsófia Papp Zsófia Papp and Godfred Bonnah Nkansah show that during Covid-19, Hungarians judged the quality of democracy less by procedural norms and more by government performance. Their findings reveal when citizens in backsliding regimes accept violations of democratic standards – and when they refuse to compromise  Read more
December 16, 2025

🦋 Reimagining democratic theory 

Gulay Icoz Gulay Icoz explores how the rejuvenated Science of Democracy series – Science of Democracy 2.0 – challenges conventional democratic theory. Here, she explains how it opens new pathways for citizen-led innovation while raising critical questions about institutional grounding and feasibility  Read more
December 9, 2025

🦋 Democracy beyond collection 

Paul Emiljanowicz This new phase in the Science of Democracy series – 2.0 – opens space for multiple democratic practices and concepts that defy a single definition. Yet, can plurality alone unsettle colonial knowledge structures? Paul Emiljanowicz explores the project’s decolonial aspirations. Here, he warns that epistemic justice requires transforming infrastructures of knowledge, not merely expanding the archive of democracy  Read more
December 3, 2025

🎈 Why we shouldn't give up on representative democracy just yet

Luca Verzichelli Luca Verzichelli explores the crisis of democratic representation and the shrinking space for citizen-institution engagement. Launching a series on 'democratic disconnect', he calls for a new democratic pedagogy, fresh analytical tools, and innovative solutions to reconnect actors, strengthen institutions, and adapt democracy to twenty first-century challenges – before it's too late Read more
December 1, 2025

🦋 The theory of democracy revisited: an interdisciplinary call to arms

Dimitris Kastritis Discussions about democracy have never been more vibrant. Yet, debates often unfold in a highly simplistic or unreflective way. Dimitris Kastritis joins the Science of Democracy 2.0 to argue for the necessity to continue raising new questions in democratic theory Read more

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