Publications
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What If Britain’s Political Volatility Is a Sign of Democratic Resilience?
Another change of guard in Downing Street has triggered a renewed bout of concern—and sniggers—over the fragility of British politics and its democracy. Not for the first time, as the country gets its seventh prime minister in 10 years. Four years ago, openDemocracy reported “Boris Johnson has quit, but Britain’s democracy is still broken.” This time, when…
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Democratic Resilience Is a Global Public Good
Political crises within major powers do not remain purely domestic affairs. In an interconnected world they affect alliance cohesion, financial stability, conflict deterrence and trust in international institutions. The institutional changes now under way in advance of the November 2026 United States midterm elections therefore deserve attention well beyond American politics. Peace depends not only…
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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #11
This edition of the Democracy Lighthouse Digest focuses on India, one of our project areas. Under Narendra Modi and the BJP, the country has become what V-Dem calls an “electoral…
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The Limits of a Coalition of Democracies
In June 2026, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, made an important argument. In his essay Policy on the AI Exponential, he calls for governments to have the authority to prevent some Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems from reaching the market. His proposal would require third-party testing of powerful “frontier” models above a defined compute threshold…
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Cockroaches Crawl Over Decaying Parties in Modi’s Parallel Universe
This weekend witnessed a cockroach infestation like never before in history. Hundreds of people braved New Delhi’s sweltering heat to gather at a protest site in the Indian capital donning cockroach masks on Saturday in the first physical demonstration of a nascent Gen Z movement called the “Cockroach Janta Party” that has already gained millions of followers…
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