Welcome
Explore interactive visualisations and tools for analysing democracy, regime types and political systems
Democracy Spectrum
Explore the democratisation-autocratisation spectrum with interactive regime analysis
Democracy Dimensions
Rank and organise key dimensions of democracy quality in hierarchical order
Triad Diamond
Visualise political systems through the triad diamond framework
V-Dem Graph Tool
Interactive graphing tool for analysing vertical accountability and party platforms
Dimensions of Quality
Select a dimension to explore normative principles and constraints.
Counted but Not Heard
Platform Democracy and the Noumenal Erosion of Participatory Agency — working paper and research tools.
Towards a Ninth Democratic Dimension
Algorithmic Accountability and the preconditions of democratic agency — working paper stages.
Triadic Structure of Power
Interactive models exploring the three co-constitutive dimensions of power — justificatory, domination and capacity — including the Quangel condition as a limit case.
Triadic Structure of Power
The theoretical argument: noumenal power, the three critics, and the triadic model applied to the Quangel condition and the United States 2026.
Triadic Structure of Power
Audio reading of the working paper.
The Triadic Structure of Power: The Quangel Condition
The limit case: justificatory agency compressed to its irreducible minimum under total domination in Nazi Berlin.
The Triadic Structure of Power
Select features to observe how justificatory power, domination and capacity draw together as co-constitutive dimensions.
Eroding the Edge of Democracy
Auditing the platform auditors — working paper and DSA audit and implementation tracking.