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Centrism as a structure for political action

February 23, 2026

🦋 Reimagining democratic theory 

December 16, 2025

🦋 Democracy beyond collection 

December 9, 2025

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

December 1, 2025

🦋 Democratising democracy science: challenges, chances, and aporias

November 27, 2025
November 6, 2025

🦋 The times have changed: beyond conventional studies of democracy 

Ryusaku Yamada Institutional theories rooted in the works of Joseph Schumpeter and Robert Dahl still dominate the study of democracy. But, argues Ryusaku Yamada, this Science of Democracy 2.0  discussion reveals the emergence of another current: scholars who engage democracy from critical perspectives and who seek to move beyond such frameworks Read more
October 31, 2025

🦋 Breaking democracy out of its box 

Mouli Banerjee We need to break democracy out of the disciplinary boundaries of political studies. A fresh, multidisciplinary approach to reimagining democracy, argues Mouli Banerjee, could be the antidote to the global democratic anxiety we are facing Read more
October 31, 2025

Penelope’s web and the politics of patience

Serena Fraiese Penelope, wife of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey, who spent twenty years weaving and unweaving a shroud to delay remarriage and preserve her household, has come to symbolise fidelity, cunning, and endurance. Serena Fraiese argues that her story reveals characteristics that have become central to diplomacy in an age of uncertainty Read more
October 24, 2025

🦋 The pluriverse of democracy 

Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen In a time of anthropogenic existential crises, writes Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, this new stage in the Science of Democracy conversation highlights how plural thinking can help rejuvenate democracy Read more
October 16, 2025

🦋 Democracy between anywhere and nowhere 

Simon Bein Do we need a paradigm shift in democracy research? Simon Bein broadens the current western-led perspective on searching for, and researching, democracies. Nevertheless, he warns, theorists should avoid making it more difficult to undertake comparative analyses of democratic systems  Read more

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