Democracy

Campaign slogans used to sell the future.

I was born in West Germany in 1975.

Across the democratic world, voters are losing patience with the machinery that stands between a vote and its result—the courts, parliamentary procedures and constitutional limits that do not care who won.

A book currently climbing the German bestseller charts caught my attention recently, not least because its title poses a question that seems at once paradoxical and profound.

A one-day submission process on legislation granting incredibly broad powers to the Minister over an extended period is repugnant.

New Zealand has a good democratic system.

Let us celebrate the relative civility of our domestic politics and defend robust and constructive debates.

Can representative democracy survive the 21st century?