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How to break the ‘democratic doom loop’

How to break the ‘democratic doom loop’

Update: 2025-07-021
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Rafael Behr talks to Demos' CEO Polly Curtis about the urgent case for upgrading our democracy and repairing the broken relationship between citizen and state.


The conversation is loosely based around this new Demos paper released today (2 July) that sets out the challenges of the global democratic emergency, how this is threatening the political landscape in Britain and what we can do about it.

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How to break the ‘democratic doom loop’

How to break the ‘democratic doom loop’