As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
The standard explanation of electoral reform is offered by rational choice accounts. These regard the choice of rules as an elite-level…
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account. The view claims that…
First Published in Philosophy & Public Affairs 21(1992): 240-274.
The article discusses presidential primary
elections in the United States, their place in the American democracy,
and various ideas for…
Governance indicators have come under fire in recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators (WGIs). Critics present these…
As Raymond Geuss states in the introduction to his 2008 Philosophy and Real Politics (PP), his book "wishes to suggest the possibility that…