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🦋 Democracy between anywhere and nowhere 

October 16, 2025

🦋 Ideology, normativity, and education

October 10, 2025

🦋 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
September 23, 2025

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

Alexander Kondakov In 2024, Georgia adopted a new legal framework that mirrors Russia’s ‘gay propaganda’ ban. Alexander Kondakov and Sandro Tabatadze explore how this law blends Russian-inspired anti-gender policies with homegrown political logic. It is reshaping Georgia’s identity and challenging its Western ties, while raising broader implications for global authoritarian movements Read more
September 19, 2025

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

Fadhilah Primandari Feminist scholarship is warning of a backlash against gender equality and women’s political inclusion. But if anti-gender backlash constitutes democratic deconsolidation, why has it been possible to declare a democracy consolidated without women’s democratic inclusion? Fadhilah Primandari revisits our understanding of democratic consolidation and asks whether it is biased towards men’s political domination Read more
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

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