Policy

The Maurrasian critique of democracy

By Félicien Monnier · December 27, 2025

As a major critic of parliamentary democracy, Charles Maurras« Provençal roots and his »organizing empiricism" fueled his contestation of the republican regime in the name of living communities.

Philosophy

The liberal critique of democracy, from Constant to Hoppe

By Frédéric Jollien · December 17, 2025

Liberals have always been suspicious of unlimited forms of power, whether monarchical, revolutionary or democratic. They have been the most vigorous advocates of the strict limitation of power, whoever holds it and however it is organized.

Switzerland

«The limits of what we call the “rule of law” are not set in stone.»

By Jonas Follonier · December 13, 2025

Socialist National Councillor Benoît Gaillard highlights the decline in political participation, the growing complexity of parliamentary work and the need to accept conflicts rather than stifle them in the name of an illusory consensus.

History

Democracy and its enemies

By Olivier Meuwly · December 11, 2025

Since the French Revolution, democracy has often been contested in its representative form, and has never completely erased the authoritarian aspirations of certain schools of thought. Yet direct democracy has not escaped criticism.