We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Raffaele MarchettiRaffaele Marchetti is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the department of social and political science of the European University Institute and a research associate at the University of Urbino, where he works on a European Commission project on Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of Society (Demos). Recent articlesWhat to do with the United Nations? The United Nations is at a pivotal moment in its sixty-year history. Can it become an instrument of democratic global governance? Daniele Archibugi & Raffaele Marchetti draw on the various proposals for UN reform to suggest a new way ahead based on transparency and legality backed by political action. Migration needs global regulationPeople Flow proposes a regulatory system that is nationalist and discriminatory. Instead we need a global system of regulation based on the principles of free movement and universal justice. |
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