The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis is our increasing human interdependence. That interdependence creates increasing needs for ‘free-use goods’: goods that, once…
Mark Warren grew up in a family that taught him a lot of lessons. In my third interview with Warren, as I probed for details of his life, he told me that his mother had been…
The editors at Contemporary Political Theory (CPT) are delighted to present this Critical Exchange, which is the text of Jane Mansbridge's lecture on receiving the 2022 Benjamin E…
Reading these essays gave me a thrill of excitement like the one I felt on hearing that the #MeToo movement had extended even into China. The ideas in this Critical Perspectives…
Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of participatory opportunities, from enhanced forms…
¿Qué sabemos realmente del funcionamiento del sistema democrático? ¿De su evolución, de los diferentes modelos de representación, de las posibilidades reales de participación…
Au cours des dernières décennies, un accord de plus en plus large s’est fait, dans la théorie politique et les sciences politiques empiriques, pour dire que la démocratie tire en…
