A5079464965- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Social Media and Politics
- Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Political Systems and Governance
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Political Economy and Marxism
- E-Government and Public Services
- Social Capital and Networks
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel
- Political Theory and Influence
- Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Public Policy and Governance
- Social Sciences and Policies
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Religion and Society Interactions
- French Urban and Social Studies
University of British Columbia
2015-2024
American University
2022-2023
University of California, San Diego
2022
Michigan State University
2022
George Washington University
2022
University of Houston
2022
Center for the Study of Democracy
2008-2022
Princeton University
2022
Augsburg University
2022
University of California, Irvine
1991-2022
Democratic theorists have paid increasing attention to problems of political representation over the past two decades. Interest is driven by (a) a landscape within which electoral now competes with new and informal kinds representation; (b) interest in fairness representation, particularly for minorities women; (c) renewed focus on judgment democratic theory; (d) appreciation that participation are complementary forms citizenship. We review recent innovations theory, focusing especially...
Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of deliberative practices. These practices combine authoritarian concentrations power with influence, producing the apparent anomaly deliberation. Although deliberation usually associated democracy, they are distinct phenomena. Democracy involves inclusion individuals matters that affect them through distributions empowerments such as votes and rights. Deliberation mode communication involving persuasion-based influence....
Despite a growing interest in corruption, the topic has been absent from democratic theory. The reason is not lack of normative issues, but rather missing links between concepts corruption and democracy. With few exceptions, political conceived as departures by public officials rules, norms, laws for sake private gain. Such conception works well within bureaucratic contexts with well‐defined offices, purposes, norms conduct. But it inadequately identifies contexts, that is, processes...
Citizens can avoid polarization and make sound decisions
Over the last few decades, democratic theory has grown dramatically in its power and sophistication, fueled by debates among models of democracy. But these are increasingly unproductive. Model-based strategies encourage theorists to overgeneralize place functions ideal typical features democracy, such as deliberation or elections. Here I sketch an alternative strategy based on question: What kinds problems does a political system need solve count “democratic”? suggest three general kinds: it...
Friedrich Nietzsche was a troublesome genius, figure outside the mainstream philosophical tradition whose very apartness has made him central to contemporary philosophy. and Political Thought reclaims political implications of Nietzsche's work: it shows how his philosophy power addresses key issues in modern thought especially those having do with historical cultural nature human agency.In this thought-provoking study, Mark Warren claims entirely new ground. He develops postmetaphysical that...
While democratic reforms of electoral institutions continue, their capacities for deepening democracy are limited by the large, pluralized, complex, and territorial political units through which they work. Much institutional innovation in has shifted elsewhere – into 'governance', development administration public policy. The potentials governance reside potentially responsive linkages between what governments do citizens receive. From perspective theory, however, this 'governance...
Democracy asks its citizens to make informed judgments about collective matters. Given the scale and complexity of modern polities, however, even most attentive cannot engage knowledgeably with decisions that affect them. For this reason, democratic theorists increasingly conceptualize systems as requiring divisions cognitive labor, in which trust others on their behalf. Modern democracies have long relied such trustees, yet institutional supports for good by are often weak or missing. We...
Democratic theories that argue for expanding the scope and domain of democracy assume democratic experiences will transform individuals in ways. Individuals are likely to become more public-spirited, tolerant, knowledgeable, self-reflective than they would otherwise be. This assumption depends on viewing self as socially discursively constituted, a view contrasts with standard liberal-democratic prepolitically constituted narrowly self-interested. The importance social discursive is it...
The topic of authority only rarely figures into theories deliberative democracy, no doubt owing to the widely held view that is inherently undemocratic. But democrats need a concept authoritative decision making, not least because scale and complexity contemporary societies radically limit numbers decisions can be made by deliberatively democratic means. I argue for an conception authority, in large part examining rejecting view—held radical democrats, conservatives, most liberals—that...
As we look back over the political landscape of twentieth century at beginning this new millennium, two features stand out in relief. First, was a bloody century, with Nazi, Fascist, and Communist regimes alone costing more than 150 million lives. The second feature, materializing mostly past fifty years, is dramatic increase number democratic countries. If, following Freedom House, define democracies as systems whose leaders are elected competitive multi-party multi-candidate processes...
Democracy is about including those who are potentially affected by collective decisions in making decisions. For this reason, contemporary democratic theory primarily assumes membership combined with effective voice. An alternative to voice exit: Dissatisfied members may choose leave a group rather than their displeasure. Rights and capacities for exit can function as low-cost, empowerments, particularly without But because often dismisses appropriate only economic markets, the potentials of...
Abstract Can deliberative mini‐publics contribute to deepening the democratic dimensions of electoral democracies? The question is framed in this article using a problem‐based approach theory–to count as democratic, political systems must accomplish three basic functions related inclusion, communication and deliberation, decision making. This elaborated with an analysis real‐world case: mini‐public citizens’ assembly design, focused on urban planning convened Vancouver, Canada. example was...
THEORIES OF RADICAL DEMOCRACY hold that if individuals were more broadly empowered, especially in the institutions most directly affect their everyday lives, experiences would have transformative effects. Individuals become public spirited, tolerant, knowledgeable, attentive to interests of others, and probing own interests. Transformations such as these improve workings higher-level representative institutions, well mitigate threats democracy is often held pose rights, pluralism,...