Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic
politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic …

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present
stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same …

Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at
least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785 …

Experiments are essential to the practice of democratic deliberation, which itself is an
experimental remedy to the problem of self-governance. This field, however, is constrained …

Almost two-thirds of countries worldwide rely on laypersons as legal decision makers in
criminal cases, and a substantial number use laypersons to resolve civil disputes …

The American criminal justice system's ills are by now so familiar as scarcely to bear
repeating: unprecedented levels of incarceration, doled out disproportionately across racial …

Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in
advanced democracies. The first part of the volume reviews theoretical motivations behind …

Democracy asks its citizens to make informed judgments about collective matters. Given the
scale and complexity of modern polities, however, even the most attentive citizens cannot …

As concerns have grown regarding harmful content spread on social media, platform
mechanisms for content moderation have become increasingly significant. However, many …

Direct-democratic processes have won popular support but fall far short of the standards of
deliberative democracy. Initiative and referendum processes furnish citizens with insufficient …