Sandra Leonie Field wrote that Francis Bacon once created a "Sylva Sylvarum" (a forest of forests) book which "contained a miscellany of travellers’ tales, everyday observations, magical recipes, and botanical descriptions" (see, for more: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/data-mountains-and-usable-concepts-a-lesson-from-francis-bacon/).
Bacon's aim in this book was to generate "a collection of empirical materials on which to build a new adequate science, freed from habitual suppositions. Nothing, in Bacon's view, was too trivial, too curious, too odd, to be salient for the construction of our scientific knowledge of the world."
What if we were to do this for democracy? What, say, hundred facts about democracy would you include in such a book? What would your angle be?
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/data-mountains-and-usable-concepts-a-lesson-from-francis-bacon/
Bottom-up direction, marginal groups and middle-classes problems and facts. In connection to that - the problems and facts of and for "real", not "formal" democracy.