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The Irish Times: The Bill Gates Problem

Review of "The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire" by Tim Schwab in the Irish Times As the festive...

Nov 28, 20231 min read

Democracy in Africa Blog - Principles of Digital Democracy

Guest article on the Democracy in Africa (DiA) blog on "Principles of Digital Democracy - Theory and Case Studies". It is unfortunate...

Jul 19, 20231 min read

Bürgerräte - Eine Kritische Betrachtung

Position paper (German) on the concept of citizens' assemblies and their negative impact on democratic institutions. Download the PDF here

Dec 29, 20221 min read

Book Review: “Two Cheers for Politics”

DUKE LAW PROFESSOR Jedediah Purdy is a man with a plan for political reform, and he outlines this plan towards the end of his latest...

Dec 14, 20212 min read

LA Review of Books: The United States Is Not a Democracy

Recently featured on the LA Review of Books as one of the best articles in LARB's 10 year history in the category of Law, in this article...

Oct 7, 20211 min read

Spiked: Identity politics is a menace to democracy

Like many people, I have long struggled to fully understand wokeness and identity politics. Now, as a half-Spanish / South American...

Aug 30, 20211 min read

Book Review: Why the Corporate World went Woke

Roslyn Fuller reviews Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy In 2016, Forbes placed Vivek Ramaswamy at No24 on its rich list of young American...

Aug 30, 20211 min read

Book Review: A Call to Re-Embrace Our Privacy

Roslyn Fuller reviews “I Have Nothing to Hide”: And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian. WHEN I STARTED...

Aug 24, 20211 min read

The Irish Times: Remote work can put commuters back into the community

Perhaps one of the most unexpected highlights of the pandemic has been how much those who are able to avail of working from home enjoy...

Aug 18, 20211 min read

Letters on Liberty - "Liberty in a Narcissistic Age"

Roslyn Fuller examines the contemporary problem of narcissism, and why an individualistic outlook on life is a barrier to progress. From...

Jan 29, 202127 min read

The Billionaire Takeover of Civil Society

As the founder and operator of a civil society organization, I’ve often been astounded at calls to give NGOs a greater say in...

Jul 27, 20201 min read

Irish Times: I went from criticising how democracy was practised to having to defend it as a concept

When I started researching democracy almost 15 years ago while writing my PhD at Trinity, many people expressed scepticism about my...

May 8, 20201 min read

Tha National Interest: The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts

In this brief work, American sociologist Salvatore Babones makes the explosive argument that the most pressing threat of authoritarianism...

Dec 15, 20191 min read

LA Review of Books / Truthdig: Snowden: A Whistle-Blower Who Lived to Tell About It

I GENERALLY CARE relatively little for the personal lives of people of note, but something that always nagged me just slightly about...

Nov 27, 20192 min read

IPPR: Beyond the ‘Populist’ Label

Why it's time for progressive parties to embrace ‘populism’ One of the more common trends in the political commentary of past years is to...

Nov 22, 20191 min read

The UK in a Changing Europe: Why an election cannot replace a referendum

There are certainly good reasons to view Britain’s upcoming 12 December election as a de facto second Brexit referendum – just look at...

Sep 27, 20191 min read

Spiked: In Defence of the People

When I began to study democracy over a dozen years ago, few of the so-called cultural elite were in a rush to argue against it as a form...

Sep 8, 20191 min read

Financial Times: Ave Imperator? Boris Johnson owes a debt to the Romans

What have the Romans ever done for us?” the actor John Cleese once asked, in a famous Monty Python sketch, before being forced to admit a...

Jul 26, 20192 min read

Unherd: Don’t be fooled by citizens’ assemblies

There is no democracy without equal participation Over the past few years, it has become quite fashionable to speak of ‘threats to...

Jan 25, 20191 min read

Kommersant: The Price of the Issue

Roslyn Fuller, Professor at the Solonian Democracy Institute, on the Irish Brexit test After a week of upheaval, when the House of...

Laying the Foundations for Real Democracy