“This is the era of using your privilege to help others participate. You still have a role in that you are just not the only dominant voice you used to be.”
Series: Tomorrow’s Political Party Today
Politics must focus on long-term systemic well-being
The transformative party honours the worth of incremental policy-making, but always prioritises a transformative political approach.
Politicians have to step outside their comfort zone
Rikard Nordin is a Member of the Swedish Parliament and started to discuss politics live while playing esports. He regularly reaches out to a crowd of thousands, allowing citizens to directly approach a parliamentarian.
Don’t fear making big changes in your organisation
You can prepare all the documents and design all the strategies you need in your organisation. You can tell people that there will be a change, no matter what that includes. But in the end, […]
Uffe Elbæk: “We need vibrant and highly diverse and talented open political tribes”
Uffe Elbæk is former Minister of Culture and the party leader of The Alternative in Denmark, currently MP for the Independent Greens, where he is the spokesperson for culture and art, education and science, business and entrepreneurship, and foreign affairs.
Talking about change is not enough: parties must work on it
“Brexit changed my life. That night made me realise that I was living a European dream that not only was not shared by the majority of the people, but that these same people had been impacted by the narrative of populist political parties that pictured it as a nightmare to escape from.”
The digitalisation of community organising
During the last fifteen years, we have seen the emergence of new political movements globally with a community organising approach towards political engagement. Before that, we saw political parties trying to use mobilisation as their […]