Fabienne Peter (Warwick): A Human Right to Democracy. Nicole Curato, John S. Dryzek, and Selen A. Ercan (Canberra) and Carolyn M. Hendriks and Simon Niemeyer (ANU): Twelve Key Findings in Deliberative Democracy Research. Ian O’Flynn (Newcastle) and Didier Caluwaerts (VUB): Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies. Christopher Hobson (Waseda): Democracy: Trap, Tragedy or Crisis? James Chamberlain (Mississippi State): Minoritarian Democracy: The Democratic Case for No Borders. Norbert Paulo (Salzburg) and Christoph Bublitz (Hamburg): Pow(d)er to the People? Voter Manipulation, Legitimacy, and the Relevance of Moral Psychology for Democratic Theory. Steven Klein (EUI): Between Charisma and Domination: On Max Weber’s Critique of Democracy. Arnaldo Goncalves (UCP): The Role of Intellectuals and Political Oratory in Modern Democracies. Jean Pisani-Ferry on why democracy requires trusted experts.
Roberto Stefan Foa (Melbourne) and Yascha Mounk (Harvard): The Danger of Deconsolidation: The Democratic Disconnect. Democracy’s IKEA: Aziz Huq reviews Political Political Theory: Essays on Institutions by Jeremy Waldron. Who rules? Richard Marshall interviews David Estlund, author of Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework.
