Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter? Why should any of us today pay…
Discussions about the media's role in politics have never seemed more important or more necessary. In a moment when casual consumers of…
A review of Donatella della Porta's Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements.
In his new book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), Personal Democracy Forum founder Micah Sifry asks…
For years, the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has been saddled with a reputation for empirical narrowness and lack of…