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Reckoning with Racism: A Challenge for Deliberative Democracy

“This review aims to deepen understanding of both scholars and practitioners about how to reckon with racism in the midst of overlapping and intersecting crises. The works reviewed here extend calls…

Not Monsters After All: How Political Deliberation Can Build Moral Communities Amidst Deep Difference

“This article proposes a different function for deliberation, which is both more modest but nevertheless critical in public life: the legitimation not of decisions, but of fellow citizens. This…

A Theoretical Model of How Digital Platforms for Public Consultation Can Leverage Deliberation to Boost Democratic Legitimacy

This article examines online civic platforms and civic tech, “public participation, deliberative quality, decision quality, government responsiveness, institutional legitimacy, and opportunities for…

Beyond Ego and Alter: Enlarged Democratic Deliberation

“This article addresses a specific objection to deliberative democracy” that argues “deliberative democracy is a naive project, impotent in the face of the dynamics of power prevailing in real…

A Citizen-Centered Theory

Mansbridge argues for “a theory of legitimacy that a) explicitly endorses plural sources of democratic legitimacy, b) acknowledges the aspirational quality of the many democratic ideals that make up…

Supporting Deliberative Systems with Referendums and Initiatives

“This article builds on this literature to argue that referendums and initiatives can serve deliberative systems by incentivising representatives to engage in recursive representation – namely,…

The Rise of Insurgent Europeanism

“Civil society in Europe and its attitudes towards the European project have changed dramatically in the past decade of multiple crises. This study mapped, tracked and monitored developments in…

Is There a Populist Wave in Europe?

“In this commentary, Benjamin Martill and José Feio examine the rise of populist parties in Europe, and question the extent to which the recent success of populist parties is a singular phenomenon,…

People, Profits and Peace

This report encourages “the private sector to...pursue an agenda which builds on but also goes beyond human rights due diligence” and “calls on policymakers and civil society to work with business in…

Migration and Mobility After the 2020 Pandemic: The End of an Age?

“This paper sets an agenda for research on the future of human migration and mobility after the 2020 Pandemic” by examining ten questions related to migration and the impact of the pandemic on…