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How much influence do citizens really have on the political class and on government decisions? This week, Zeinab Badawi is joined by Egyptian writer and economist, Tarek Osman, who says that economic independence has galvanised the youth of Egypt. Chinese professor Weiwei Zhang argues that Chinese-style meritocracy is more appropriate to his country than democracy. And American historian Anne Applebaum tells us why attempts at total control of people’s lives in communist Eastern Europe sometimes backfired. Illustration by Emily Kasriel.