Why the democracy is still in a good shape – blog post by Carsten Greve

Why the democracy is still in a good shape – blog post by Carsten Greve

Academic co-director at the platform Carsten Greve just posted a new blog post about the wellbeing of the Danish democracy in light of the debates and experiences at this year’s political festival Folkemødet.

Greve elaborates on three main post-event rationalizations, highlighted as: 1) Folkemødet focuses at democratic debates in practice, 2) Folkemødet utilize the low power distance in Denmark and 3) Folkemødet indicates political openness for new ideas and arguments.

The blog post discuss how Folkemødet as a scene for un-rolling the democracy, provides all regardless of normal hierarchies, with the chance to speak. The openness is also practiced as a social setting when ministers, students, public and private, toughed and new bees etc. socialize throughout the festival. Nobody is ‘more relevant’ than others. This also translates to the themes of the debates where new agendas and ideas got a change to get attention as well.

Read the blog post [in Danish] here.