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Glossary
Democratic Odyssey
(02:19 or p.1 in the transcript)
The Democratic Odyssey is a decentralized, collaborative, and transparent exercise of crowdsourcing and co-creation kicked-off by a core consortium composed of The European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance, Particip-Action, European Alternatives, Citizens Take Over Europe, The Democracy and Culture Foundation, Democracy Next, Mehr Demokratie, Eliamep, The Real Deal, Phoenix, The European Capital of Democracy, as well as the Berggruen and Salvia Foundations. This community is open to all who want to be involved. Threatened from within and outside by the rise of partisan hyper-polarization, authoritarian buy-in, disinformation and electoral interference, European democracy is under attack on all sides. As Europe needs to address citizens’ sense of disenfranchisement, pathways to renewal are necessary. For the Democratic Odyssey consortium, part of the solution lies in creating a standing European People’s Assembly that will become a core part of the institutional landscape of the European Union, made of citizens selected by lot, serving on a rotating basis. This project comes at an opportune moment. In the past five years, in Europe, there have been ten national assemblies and around 70 local assemblies on the topic of climate change alone. The EU itself took a huge leap with the Conference on the Future of Europe which integrated transnational, multi-lingual, sortition-based deliberation into the policy making process. The Conference planted a seed which the Democratic Odyssey wants to make flourish. As James Mackay, the project’s coordinator, declared in a recent interview with European Alternatives: “we are not aiming at making a ‘perfect’ assembly (whatever that would even mean). Our hope is more modest: to offer a “proof of concept” that, in the window between the EP elections but before the new Commissions convenes, can bring grassroots and institutional actors together to consider how citizens’ participation can be institutionalized in the longer term.” source
Thoughts on the Past, Present and Future of Diverse Democracies
Current State of Affairs in Putin’s Russia
Faltering democratic systems and the need to reconstruct democracy
The French Presidential Election and the State of Democracy in France
Perspectives on Putin and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Assessing the 2022 Hungarian Parliamentary Elections
Myanmar’s Struggle for Democratization
Imminent Scenarios in Ukraine
Geopolitics of the War in Ukraine
The Genealogy of Illiberalism
Freedom of Expression in an Unequal World
Governance in Illiberal Democracies
Holding Power Accountable with Investigative Journalism
Populism and democracy’s ‘critical infrastructure
The Right to Belong
The Role of Radio in Transitions to Democracy
Biopolitics from Below
Challenges of the Israeli democracy today
Language and public discourse in the success of right-wing political movements
The struggle for voting rights in the US today
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