Adam Lent is research director of the Power inquiry.

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A democratic deficit cannot be remedied by forcing citizens to vote, says Adam Lent, research director of the Power inquiry.

In advocating a written constitution rather than achievable reforms, critics of a plan to revive Britain's fading democracy are making the best the enemy of the good, says Adam Lent

The lesson of openDemocracy’s debate on the fallout from the Cancún summit is that campaigners for global change who want to move from protest to power need to extend their sights beyond the short term and single issue.

Roger Scruton is right to bring fox-hunting and gay rights into a common frame of reference, but his political partiality blinds him to the changing character of protest movements in the context of history and global politics.

From Stop the War to Save the Whale, from Liberty and Livelihood to Globalise Resistance, popular movements of protest and advocacy are a key feature of the political landscape. Why do they grow or fail? How will the movement for global change respond to the lessons of its early years?Tomorrow the world? The rocky path of social movements