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Published in: openDemocracyUKCentrists must embrace anti-elitism or face extinction.
Instead of aping chauvinism, centrists must respond imaginatively to the anti-political sentiment behind Brexit and...
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Published in: TransformationTransformative democracy: bringing the outside world in
Is there hope for a new politics in European institutions? One insider-outsider says yes.
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Published in: openSecurityChallenging the populist right - European precedents
The European left should be the most committed and consistent advocate of democracy, human rights and the rule of...
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Published in: HomeDebating “the commons” in post-socialist Bulgaria
The absence of solidarity with other causes and the persistence of neoliberalism in Bulgarian protests against the...
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Published in: HomeAlternatives to the nationalism of the conspicuously ignorant
The accounts, symbols and feelings that we have about national identity were largely imagined, created and...
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Published in: HomeFeminist practice in the 15-M movement: progress and outstanding issues
As a protest space created by men and women, 15-M has not developed tools for recognising the patriarchal logic to...
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Published in: HomeExploring the commons
Today's rediscovery of the notion of the commons stems directly from the need to regulate and to explore how to...
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Published in: HomeThe commons: beyond the market vs. state dilemma
Elinor Ostrom, the Nobel Prizewinner who died this week, pioneered this work. Value is created through the logic of...
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Published in: HomeReinventing Democracy
If democracy means rule by the people for the people, it has broken down. At pivotal moments in the past, altering...
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Published in: HomeReinventing democracy in Europe: introducing the week
The economic and social travails sweeping through Europe can be traced to an imperceptible but seismic shift in the...
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Published in: HomeReclaiming democratic demands from the populists
As citizens lose confidence in democratic institutions, xenophobic populist parties thrive and join their voices to...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy in crisis: two and a half theories about the operation of democratic capitalism
Global financial market-driven post-democracy is well able to describe the logic that governs the realities of...
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Published in: HomeOn social destitution, misdirected protest and the missing crisis of capitalism
The current crisis was not imposed by technocratic elites, but by democratically elected centre-right and...
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Published in: HomeReclaiming Europa and the uncontrolled power of business
The common denominator of Greece's and Europe's (and the world's) problems is the uncontrolled power of business....