The Death of the Market-Oriented Party/Candidate; why Clinton lost.
The morning of the ninth of november will forever be seen as a historical morning. On approximately 3AM EST, Donald J. Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 US...
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Join the Debate: pick up your phone and forget the facts – they are too boring anyway.
With the United States general election coming up again, audiences are once again invited to join the conversation. To “use hash tag #TheDebate on Twitter”, or “vote on facebook”. To...
#Syria: Just a Civil War?
Trying to understand, and above all, make sense of what is happening in Syria for the last few weeks is like a rollercoaster in zero gravity. Nothing makes sense. The...
‘Project Democracy’ Almost At An End, Winners Will Soon Be Decided
To the left: people protesting the banking sector. To the right: people protesting Monsanto, the assumed winner of Project Democracy The long running experiment called ‘Democracy’, which has run...
Peter Singer – One World (Summary)
Here is another summary of a book. This time, it’s Peter Singer’s “One World”, which I had to study for part two of “Democracy & Justice” (Democratie & Rechtvaardigheid). Again,...
Robert A. Dahl – On Democracy (Summary)
This is a summary of Robert A. Dahl’s book ‘On Democracy’ (1998). It is written in English, due to possible translation issues, but, for full disclosure, my native language is...
G500; Undermining the Principles of Democracy Since Today
One of my classmates, Sywert van Lienden, proposed a system where 500 enthusiastic, politically engaged adolescents would join every large political party in order to change their policies from within....
Wednesday’s Weekly [8] (Week 12, 2012)
Time is still flying as it is wednesday already. Can you imagine that? The week litteraly seemed to fly by, as did the weeks before that. What might be helping, is...
