Rounaq Jahan (RJ): To promote democracy, we must first democratise our political parties. Parties play a central role in the proper functioning of representative democracy. They recruit and socialise ...

Following the appointment of sociologist Steffen Mau in October 2025, the Institute's research now increasingly focuses on issues of political violence, democratic backsliding, and the role of ...

Wherein lies the key to national success – across the globe? In a word, it is ‘inclusivity’ – in the view of three distinguished Nobel laureates in economics who have studied the fates of countries ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 to three American economists whose work established the critical role of ...

My article last week, ‘The importance of nurturing institutions for a resilient Jamaica’, mentioned a past interview with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) economists Diether W Beuermann and ...

If referendums were held North and South and there was majority support in both jurisdictions for Irish unification then two broad institutional possibilities would face the all-island state. On the ...

While a majority of people express a commitment to most of our social and political institutions and the democratic form of governance enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, there are those who relish ...