🦋 Democracy may mean multiple things, but that should not stop us recasting our stumbling democratic politics

Michael Saward

untain’, but argues that its size and complexity should not prevent us sifting and analysing our findings to design new models of democracy

September 3, 2021

🦋 The archive and the demos

Eva Cherniavsky

Can the people reclaim failing democratic institutions around the globe? Eva Cherniavsky argues that the demos itself must first be reconstituted. In this context, democracy’s myriad historical meanings assume an immediate political relevance

August 26, 2021

🦋 Proposing a taxonomy for democratic theory

Petra Guasti

Petra Guasti takes inspiration from the natural world to propose a way to organise the taxonomy of democratic theory. In a joint effort, and using a three-step process akin to Linnaeus and Darwin, she suggests that democratic theorists could create an encyclopedia of democracies

August 23, 2021

🦋 We need democracy to be able to discuss democracy

Markus Pausch

Collecting the words of democracy like butterflies is a worthwhile endeavour. But it doesn't work without normative valuation and a democratic context. The butterflies are not only around us, but in us! And they need an intact environment to survive, writes Markus Pausch

August 20, 2021

🦋 Collecting notions of democracy

Maija Setälä

Democratic renewal demands openness to different understandings of democracy, and reflection on our preconceptions. Maija Setälä argues that it also requires analytical clarity and normative commitment

August 13, 2021

🦋 On not rescuing an abandoned science of democracy

Matthew Flinders

Launching this series, Jean-Paul Gagnon made the case for ‘a database of democracy’ to grasp the conceptual complexity that other theorists have, he suggests, generally skirted around. Matthew Flinders disputes whether a taxonomical approach really is the answer to the question ‘What is democracy?’

August 5, 2021

🦋 Democracy: what's in a word?

Laurence Whitehead

Democracy may have different meanings in different cultures. Yet, writes Laurence Whitehead, the concept of democracy also operates at a universal level where users can communicate with each other across time and space

July 28, 2021

🦋 Making sense of democracy – not without the demos!

Hans Asenbaum

How can we capture the many meanings of democracy? We need to critically reflect on who produces knowledge about democracy, argues Hans Asenbaum. People outside academia must play a central role in democratic theorising

July 23, 2021

🦋 If democracy is hard to love, how can we teach it?

Kei Nishiyama

Teaching democracy is hard work, precisely because we are living in a time when democracy is in crisis. So what should we teach, and how? Kei Nishiyama suggests that a grassroots, bottom-up approach involving teachers and learners alike will help us gain ownership of democracy – and fall back in love with it

July 13, 2021

🦋 Rescuing an abandoned science: the lexicon of democracy

Jean-Paul Gagnon

For centuries democracy has had many meanings. But they have not been collected and studied as a whole. This leaves us, Jean-Paul Gagnon argues, with only a partial knowledge of democracy. It's one that limits our options for democratisation in an increasingly authoritarian world

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