Dealmaking under duress is always undemocratic.

Maybe do some homework if you’re gonna be a university trustee?

ISUS 2026 Macau, 23-25 July 2026 The 18th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 23–25 July 2026 at the Faculty of Law of the University of

The University Center for Human Values is pleased to welcome Melissa Schwartzberg as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, effective July 1, 202...

A new book explains why and how.

We seek paper proposals for the sixth Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) Junior Scholars Workshop, which will take place at McGill April 25-26, 2025. An ongoing collaboration among fa...

Two leading scholars of democracy make the case for political bargaining and define its proper limits.Bargains—grand and prosaic—are a central fact of political life. The distribution of bargaining po...

The neighborhood reaction to the sudden, mysterious closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: “No no no no no no no no no no no!!”

Bernard Manin (1951-2024) Political theory has just lost one of its towering figures: Bernard Manin passed away on Friday November 1, 2024. Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Scienc...

Defenders of epistemic democracy propose that the “wisdom of the many” will result in superior outcomes: in this context, they hold that widespread participation will yield better constitutional no...

An influential political theorist, Professor Manin was probably best-known among philosophers for his contributions to democratic theory. The political theorist Melissa Schwartzberg, Chair of the Depa...

The dream of rescuing democracy from the people has been dreamed—and smashed.

Good news, listeners! Our rational and responsive representations in Washington have agreed to keep the federal government running through December 20. (As far

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality

It’s a rare buccaneer who runs a book club. But in October 2012, the chief administrator of the Silk Road drug market, under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was on the dark web assigning reading...

Ben is joined by Kevin Elliott, author of the book Democracy for Busy People to discuss the value of importance of designing democratic institutions but are broad, not just deep, and make it easy f…

Trump's attacks on the New York jury undermines our faith in America's jury system.

Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a rule on the Federal Register entitled "Reducing Barriers to HUD-Assisted Housing."

Two leading scholars of democracy make the case for political bargaining and define its proper limits.Bargains—grand and prosaic—are a central fact of political life. The distribution of bargaining po...

“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” This question, asked by English writer Samuel Johnson in 1775, still touches a nerve today. Americans on the one ha...

Advances an alternative approach to democratic reform that focuses on building institutions that empower people who have little time for politics.   How do we make democracy more equal? Although in t...