Jesper Lindqvist
Politically active people — including protesters and those engaging outside elections — are better represented than inactive citizens, write Jesper Lindqvist, Jennifer Oser, Ruth Dassonneville, Mikael Persson, and Anders Sundell. Images of placard-wielding protesters are a common feature in global media reporting. But do they affect policy outcomes any better than inactive people? Read more
Kevin Meyvaert
Young people in Europe and, by extension, the West, are increasingly disengaging from electoral politics. Academic studies are still trying to understand the phenomenon. But Kevin Meyvaert argues that without a moral narrative of justice and fairness, we will never succeed in reconnecting all citizens to democratic life Read more
Hossein Kermani
Hossein Kermani argues that a largely voiceless majority in Iran is routinely misrepresented by both the Islamic regime and its loudest opponents. Amid the current Iran-Israel-US conflict, he shows how many Iranians are rejecting simplistic binaries and instead are confronting the war’s causes, costs, and uncertainties Read more
Swaptik Chowdhury
Swaptik Chowdhury argues that the postwar model of governing through economic growth and trade can no longer address planetary-scale crises. Drawing on deliberative democracy experiments and emerging AI tools, he makes the case for governance grounded in shared decision-making rather than market coordination alone Read more
Marina Milić
In 2024–25, Serbia’s leaderless, decentralised, nonviolent student movement made a rare thing happen: it made fear change sides. In 2026, the government has shifted from managing crowds to tightening procedural control, targeting the institutions that sheltered resistance. Universities, argues Marina Milić, are now the frontline rebels – disciplined through labour rules and a financial ‘kill switch’ Read more
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