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April 19, 2023

🦋 Inclusive democracy: a second-generation design

Karen Celis

Fixing numbers is not enough. In their second-generation design for inclusive democracy, Karen Celis and Sarah Childs refashion representation processes to incentivise elected representatives to care more for diverse citizens. The designed-for effects? Experiencing better representation ‘in the round’, the most marginalised feeling recognised by and connected with democratic politics

April 17, 2023

🦋 Language, diversity, and Ralph Ellison’s 'democratic vernacular'

Nathan Pippenger

Do democracies have to choose between diversity and social cohesion? The African-American writer Ralph Ellison spent his career resisting this false choice, arguing that the idea of a 'common culture' did not have to amount to assimilation. Nathan Pippenger argues that Ellison’s distinctive perspective on these issues holds important lessons for democracies today

April 4, 2023

🦋 Making the case for inconvenient democracy

Remi Chukwudi Okeke

Remi Chukwudi Okeke argues that democracy's adherents often jettison it for other forms of governance, like authoritarianism, when it is no longer convenient for them. Embracing an ethic of inconvenient democracy may undo this pernicious dynamic

March 30, 2023

🦋 What do people mean when they say they support democracy – and why should we care?

Hannah Chapman

Amid concerns of declining support for democracy worldwide, recent research points to a way forward. Hannah Chapman, Margaret Hanson, Valery Dzutsati, and Paul DeBell show that how people define democracy influences their support for it

March 24, 2023

🦋 How to create meaningful democracy in our social lives

Peter Donkor

Peter Donkor argues that the democratisation of our social lives is contingent upon a democratic political sphere. Doubling down on 'spillover theory', he urges governments to lead bolder democratisation efforts to show how ever-more democratic procedures are, indeed, preferable to authoritarian regimes and authoritarianism at home, school, work and beyond

March 21, 2023

🦋 'Rationalising democracy': explaining a common logic

Suthan Krishnarajan

Why do people committed to democracy explicitly support undemocratic behaviour by their politicians? Suthan Krishnarajan argues that it all comes down to perception. Sometimes, politicians establish policies that attract widespread support, but they do so in an undemocratic fashion. Citizens then 'rationalise democracy' to reassure themselves that politicians are indeed acting in their best interests

March 16, 2023

🦋 Let’s tell a more contextual story about Minben

Li-Chia Lo

Li-Chia Lo revisits Rongxin Li’s essay on the Confucian concept of Minben (people-core/root) to offer more context to the concept and to differentiate it from the Chinese concept of Minzhu (people-master). Lo argues that both concepts are different, and we should not elide them

March 13, 2023

🦋 The merits of consultative democracy

Rongxin Li

An orthodoxy in conventional democratic theory says that voting is all that really matters. Rongxin Li challenges the prominence of electoralism and majoritarianism in representative democratic practice. He argues that consultative democracy confers far more legitimacy on a decision than voting ever can or will

March 3, 2023

🦋 Democracy as dissent: lessons from outside the West

Nojang Khatami

There are good reasons to consider resistance a central element in any definition of democracy. Nojang Khatami invites us to look outside familiar Western experiences for resources of dissent

February 27, 2023

🦋 Actualised democracy and the challenge of becoming the democratic citizens it needs

Fathali M. Moghaddam

Fathali M. Moghaddam puts forward a picture of 'actualised democracy' aimed at the equal participation of every person in all public decision-making. For it to succeed, today’s citizens need upskilling into 'democratic citizens'

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🦋 Inclusive democracy: a second-generation design

🦋 Language, diversity, and Ralph Ellison’s 'democratic vernacular'

🦋 Making the case for inconvenient democracy

🦋 What do people mean when they say they support democracy – and why should we care?

🦋 How to create meaningful democracy in our social lives

🦋 'Rationalising democracy': explaining a common logic

🦋 Let’s tell a more contextual story about Minben

🦋 The merits of consultative democracy

🦋 Democracy as dissent: lessons from outside the West

🦋 Actualised democracy and the challenge of becoming the democratic citizens it needs

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