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In clinging to power, Nicolás Maduro, Hugo Chávez’s handpicked successor, is steering Venezuela’s once-rich democracy to autocracy. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters

February 2, 2018

Is Democracy Dead or Alive? What democracy exactly are we supposed to nurture?

Jean-Paul Gagnon, University of Canberra; Clare Woodford, University of Brighton; Dawn Brancati, Columbia University; Eva Cherniavsky, University of Washington; Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University, and Youngho Cho, Sogang University

Democracy takes many forms, some of them democracy in name only. Confusion and misappropriation complicate the public struggle for the democracy to come, but this challenge is always unending.

Focus E15 Mums occupy homes on the Carpenters Housing Estate in 2014. Jonathan Brady PA Archive/PA Images

January 30, 2017

Why the US and Britain are not democracies

Mark Devenney, University of Brighton and Clare Woodford, University of Brighton

True democracy is actually a radical idea.

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