'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the…
This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence…
Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of…
Human societies fashion themselves through rites of memory, gilding and illuminating
some pages of the past while consigning others to…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…
One purpose of my recent research (with David E. Campbell) on religion in America was to confirm and, if possible, extend previous research…
Book abstract: Even though political philosophy has a long tradition, it is much more than the study of old and great treatises.…
Political arithmetic is always suspect, and one should always examine carefully the claims of those seeking votes. Smart observers have…
The 14 months since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow have not been kind to those who yearn for a free Egypt. A military junta rules, Islamists…
After nearly 40 primaries, Mitt Romney has more than twice as many delegates as Rick Santorum and more than four times Newt Gingrich’s…