The scandal over expenses and the recent revelations about the corruption of former Labour MPs have seriously weakened the legitimacy of British political leadership. Florence Faucher-King retraces the main episodes and factors that have led to an unprecedented crisis of representation in the country of parliamentary government.
Our consumption never stops increasing and the planet is bled dry. Relying on technological progress for our salvation is an illusion. For the solution is political: We must seek to refound our representative democracy.
Westerners think they own a universal democratic model. However, their confidence vanishes whenever they try to export it. Worse, this claim hampers their examination of both their own eventful history and the questions raised by non-Western democratic experiences.
Is the Internet an opportunity for or a threat to democracy? The sure way to a Balkanisation of public opinion or the seedbed of new deliberative practices? Patrice Flichy presents here an important synthesis of the research – including his own – available on the subject. The picture he paints dispels a good few assumptions…
The now widespread call for “change” reflects a resurgence of the still-present republican spirit that has characterized America when it is at its best, which is, alas, not always the case. But which is the best candidate to fulfil this longing?
The idea of promoting democracy, as it has been theorised by American scholars and put into practice by American administration since the 1990s, rests upon a limited conception of democracy and a questionable interpretation of history.
The Middle East has become the theater of a generalized “politics of error.” Particularly since 9/11, errors of comprehension have intertwined with errors of calculation in ways that destabilize the regional system and make for an even more uncertain future.
