Lisa Anderson 22 January 2018
More and more citizens feel abandoned or betrayed by their State, by the Welfare State, says Lisa Anderson.
populism
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- Michael Sandel 19 December 2017To understand the rise of populism we need to engage and care about questions as dignity of work, uncriticized financialization of market driven economy, growing inequality, missing solidarity and the fear of immigration.
- Pasquale Ferrara 8 November 2017Ethno-nationalism is at the centre of debates on the involution of the political sphere in Europe and in the western world. Some political analysts interpret this phenomenon as a re-edition of the nationalism of the XIX century and the first half of the XX.
- Mukul Kesavan 25 September 2017Ideally we speak of a democracy when individuals and groups are not stigmatised on account of their origins, their race, their religion.
- Gianni Del Panta 6 April 2017In the mid-1970s democracy seemed to have fallen to an all-time low. In Latin America, two of the most successful democratic stories, Uruguay and Chile, were violently overthrown by military coups in 1973,
- 7 April 2014Iceland's crowd-sourced constitution and the impact of Beppe Grillo's blog on Italian politics reveal how "Internet democracy" has opened a new phase of democratic innovation. The relationship between citizens and politicians may never be the same again.
