• I wrote about nineteen invited op-eds and magazine articles pointing out the flaws in
democracy. There wasn't the same kind of interest in 2014 or 2012 when I was writing about …

The impetus for writing this book can be traced to a council block in the inner-London
borough of Hackney. Hackney is one of the most deprived local authorities in the UK, and …

ABSTRACT Hélène Landemore claims that under certain conditions, democracies with
universal suffrage will tend to make smarter and better decisions than epistocracies, even …

A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and
parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on …

In many democracies, voter turnout is low and getting lower. If the people choose not to
govern themselves, should they be forced to do so? For Jason Brennan, compulsory voting …

Jason Brennan erhebt eine provokante Forderung: Die Demokratie soll endlich nach ihren
Ergebnissen beurteilt werden. Und die sind keineswegs überzeugend. Demokratie führt oft …

In this article, I defend compulsory voting on the grounds that it reinforces the distinctive and
valuable role that elections play in contemporary democracy. Some scholars have …

Because non-voters are less politically informed than voters, some propose that increasing
voter turnout would reduce the quality of information among the active voting population …

Compulsory voting (CV) undoubtedly raises electoral turnout. Yet does it also affect
individual party choices and aggregate election outcomes? Previous studies have focused …

On September 3, 2015, the Political Epistemology/Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics section of
the American Political Science Association sponsored a roundtable on epistemic democracy …