Democracy, Participation and Governance
Featured Strategic Papers
The ideas introduced in Good Morning, Europa are further developed through Libertas Europa Strategic Papers, research and the European Strategic Doctrine.
DEMOCRATIC SOVEREIGNTY
From the Independent Human Mind to the International Order What makes democracy genuinely democratic? This foundational paper starts from a simple principle: political power may be delegated, but sovereignty must remain with the demos.
DEMOCRATIC SOVEREIGNTY INDEX — LE-DSI
Measuring Whether the Demos Actually Remains Sovereign A new framework for measuring democracy by asking who actually controls political power — citizens, or institutions, elites, information gatekeepers and external powers acting in their name.
The Great Democratic Illusion: Democracy Without a Cognitively Sovereign Demos
The Great Democratic Illusion argues that contemporary democratic theory has increasingly confused democratic institutions with democracy itself. Elections, constitutions, representative assemblies and civil liberties remain indispensable
No Final Human: Why Democracy Can Never Be Finished
E-Voting and E-Democracy
Four Questions for a Sovereign Democratic Order
Democracy, Sovereignty, Cognitive Independence and Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century
The European Model of Integrated Democracy
A Strategic Framework for Democratic Renewal in Europe [DOCTRINE]
Other Papers
1. INTRODUCTION Members of parliament and officials are entrusted with…
A characteristic of Western, especially Anglo-American, politics is the relatively…
The Necessity of a New Democratic Platform for Europe’s Future…