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Policy is calling: three hands-on tactics to make your work count

October 15, 2026

🎈Co-creation strengthens democracy only when it shares power

October 14, 2026

Private education and the limits of uniformity

August 17, 2026

My love, my car: inside right-wing transport policy

August 3, 2026

Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness

July 23, 2026
April 14, 2026

Why US-Africa bilateral health deals are inherently unfair

Fubu Ngubu New US-Africa health agreements promise funding and self-reliance. But many include clauses on data and pathogen sharing. Fubu Ngubu argues that such arrangements risk transforming health partnerships into exercises in digital extraction. African data is generating global value without fair returns for African nations Read more
February 6, 2026

It's not finance, it's your pensions

Martino Comelli Sweden is a social-democratic beacon with one of the world's deepest stock markets. Contradiction? Martino Comelli argues that welfare states actively build financial markets through social policy design. Funded pensions and housing subsidies create investable assets; generous public pensions crowd finance out. The same spending level can produce radically different capitalisms Read more
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
November 28, 2025

The failure of social housing in the UK and the abandonment of the the poor

Will Edmonds Will Edmonds argues that the UK’s targeted, means-tested social housing is permitted by a culture that criminalises poverty, and has enabled tragedies like the Grenfell fire. A look through the history of UK public housing shows that the government should adopt a humane, universalist approach Read more
November 5, 2025

The EU’s AI gamble with healthcare

Jason Tucker The promise of revolutionary advances in healthcare is not a mainstay of the EU’s artificial intelligence policies. Jason Tucker explores how the outcomes of the EU’s instrumentalisation of healthcare in the AI race doesn't look good for the waning political legitimacy of the EU Read more

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