Yves Sintomer is professor of political science at Paris-VIII University, researcher at CRESPPA, Doctor Honoris Causa on the University of Liège and affiliate member at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, he’s the creator of Little historical past of democratic experimentation (La Découverte, 2011).
Yes, she is disarmed …
The starting of 2025 has an air on the finish of the time. Democracy already gave the impression to be disarmed, however 2024 exceeded the worst expectations. Public deficits explode, the business is disintegrated, public providers deteriorate, inequalities and precariousness enhance, political mistrust reaches unpublished ranges, the political class appears unable to get out of the impasse. The Ve Republic appears, for good this time, out of breath. It had not been designed to be significantly democratic, but it surely was supposed to make sure governability. It appears behind us.
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