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Germany's Sachsen-Anhalt shows how policy complexity is outrunning democracy

October 5, 2026

🦋 Building a pluriversal democracy where many worlds fit

August 13, 2026

The digital confession box: a Foucauldian analysis of social media bans

August 4, 2026

Purging George Orwell's books misses what drives the political right

July 15, 2026

🦋 Data, power, and the future of democratic theory

March 3, 2026
February 23, 2026

Centrism as a structure for political action

Karl Pike A distinct centrism which goes ‘beyond’ left and right remains elusive, argues Karl Pike. Centrists act as a managers of an ideological context shaped by existing ideologies of left and right, moderate and extreme 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 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
November 27, 2025

🦋 Democratising democracy science: challenges, chances, and aporias

Peter A. Kraus This new phase in the Science of Democracy series sets a brisk and insightful agenda for overcoming the gridlock in democracy studies. While he embraces its key points, Peter A. Kraus argues that the ultimate and inescapable challenge in developing a democratic epistemics is the politics involved Read more

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