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...
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Laying the Foundations for Real Democracy
Roslyn Fuller
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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...
Oct 21, 20187 min read
LA Review of Books: Democracy: The Best of the Worst? A Conversation with Paul Cartledge
EDITOR’S NOTE: Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor with a background in the classics, published Democracy: A Lifein 2016. Our reviewer,...
Jul 27, 20187 min read
Scope Magazine: Democracy is Changing
Politics feels increasingly fractious, perhaps irrevocably broken. That is a blinkered view. The only thing that is certain is change,...
Jul 17, 20186 min read
Village Magazine: Interview with Eleonora Evi - FiveStarMovement
"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at five stars" Roslyn Fuller interviews Eleonora Evi, MEP for Italy’s Five Star...
Jul 17, 20181 min read
PodCast: What Am Direct Democracy?
The Olympics. Philosophy. Big marble statues of naked dudes wrestling. Lots of extraordinary things came from Ancient Greece, Direct...
Dec 11, 20171 min read
Documentary: When Citizens Assemble
Patrick Chalmers of of AllHandsOn has put together this documentary about the Citizens' Assembly on the 8th Amendment on abortion in...
Nov 7, 201710 min read
LA Review of Books: Pirates, Democracy, and the Digital Revolution
AS AMERICAN DEMOCRACY seems to take another downward bend in its own death spiral with each passing week, the United States might learn a...
Jan 8, 20177 min read
Forbes Interview & Review: Time To Disrupt Our Powdered-Wig Democracy
Article by Brook Manville The January 2017 stock market is showing plenty of optimism, but the political sphere swirls with anxiety....
Dec 13, 20164 min read
UNA-UK Magazine: Are the people always right?
A discussion between Katy Collins and Roslyn Fuller: Katy Collin, PhD in international relations, School of International Service,...
Dec 9, 20160 min read
Oct 31, 201612 min read
LA Review of Books: “Against Democracy” and “Against Elections”: Where Do We Go From Here?
AS THE UNITED STATES APPROACHES a most divisive presidential election, it is hardly surprising to see an upsurge in literature proposing...
Sep 20, 201616 min read
Alternet: Heartbreaking Stories from Academia
“What is education?” Ruth Wangerin asks me, when I Skype the sociology professor at her home in New York. “Is education a good for its...
Sep 15, 20165 min read
RT: Why a US presidential pardon for Edward Snowden is not such a crazy idea after all
This Friday, Oliver Stone’s film 'Snowden' hits theaters. The release will be accompanied by a campaign that is focused on procuring a...
Jul 28, 20165 min read
OpenDemocracy: Using technology to inject the demos back into democracy
The recent Brexit referendum revealed a deep societal rift about what the word ‘democracy’ means. To some, the term ‘democracy’ is...
Jul 23, 20162 min read
Fingal Independent: 'Digital Democracy' project set to be launched in Fingal
A candidate in the recent General Election in Fingal is to mount an experiment in 'digital democracy' which should provide a fascinating...
Jul 8, 20161 min read
BBC: Power to the People? The Real Story
Is the old political order being overturned by a new democratic populism? Dr. Fuller debates this question on the BBC World Service...
Jun 21, 201614 min read
LA Review of Books: Democracy — Too Much of a Good Thing?
ANDREW SULLIVAN’S RECENT New York magazine essay, Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic, rattled many a reader and provoked a...
Jun 9, 201611 min read
The Nation: Why Is American Democracy So Broken, and Can It Be Fixed?
Few elections in the Western world offer the spectacle that is an American presidential race. While Brits tend to keep a stiff upper lip...
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