Democratiya

{{short description|Defunct British online review of books}}

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Democratiya was a free quarterly online review of books with the aim to "stimulate discussion of radical democratic political theory".{{cite web |url=http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20070704-154710 |title=Democratiya |author= |date= |publisher=Intute |access-date=3 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515210937/http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20070704-154710 |archive-date=15 May 2012}} Sixteen editions were produced from 2005 until a final edition in Autumn 2009, after which Democratiya merged with Dissent magazine.{{cite journal |last=Johnson |first=Alan |date=Winter 2010 |title=From Democratiya to Dissent |url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/from-democratiya-to-dissent-2 |journal=Dissent |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116215133/https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/from-democratiya-to-dissent-2 |archive-date=16 January 2023}}

Democratiya’s founding editor was Alan Johnson, a professor in the Department of Social and Psychological Sciences at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, England,{{cite web |url=http://info.edgehill.ac.uk/SPSNewsletter/article.asp?id_art=14 |title=Democratiya: A new online journal |author= |date=November 2006 |website=SPS Research and Consultancy News |publisher=Edge Hill University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070618025833/http://info.edgehill.ac.uk/SPSNewsletter/article.asp?id_art=14 |archive-date=18 June 2007 |via= |quote= }} and a co-author of the Euston Manifesto.

Democratiya’s topics ranged over many issues, including those relating to war, human rights, the United Nations, democracy, and the international community.