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Democracy Put to the Test by Generation Z
From Nepal to Togo, via Madagascar, Morocco and India, a single generation is challenging powers it sees as corrupt and out of touch, using a shared grammar of horizontal organizing, distrust of parties and strategic use of digital platforms. Yet this common grammar produces radically different outcomes, institutional capture, reformist absorption or outright deadlock, depending on the nature of the power confronted rather than the intensity of mobilization. The article argues that what is at stake goes beyond the digital question alone, it is representative democracy’s own capacity to absorb a generation that no longer asks to be represented but to participate directly.