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    <title>Landemore: Can AI bring deliberation to the masses</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-16T17:33:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.academia.edu/106616966/Landemore_Can_AI_bring_deliberation_to_the_masses</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A core problem in deliberative democracy is the tension between two seemingly equally important conditions of democratic legitimacy: deliberation, on the one hand, and mass participation, on the other. Might artificial intelligence help bring quality deliberation to the masses? The answer is a qualified yes. The chapter first examines the conundrum in deliberative democracy around the trade-off between deliberation and mass participation by returning to the seminal debate between Joshua Cohen and Jürgen Habermas. It then turns to an analysis of the 2019 French Great National Debate, a low-tech attempt to involve millions of French citizens in a two-month-long structured exercise of collective deliberation. Building on the shortcomings of this process, the chapter then considers two different visions for an algorithm-powered form of mass deliberation-Mass Online Deliberation (MOD), on the one hand, and Many Rotating Mini-publics (MRMs), on the other-theorizing various ways artificial intelligence could play a role in them. To the extent that artificial intelligence makes the possibility of either vision more likely to come to fruition, it carries with it the promise of deliberation at the very large scale."

--- Can't find this anywhere except this ridiculous parasitic site...]]></description>
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    <title>Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy | Minds and Machines | Springer Nature Link</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-09T13:18:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["LLMs are among the most advanced tools ever devised for understanding and generating natural language. Democratic deliberation and decision-making involve, at several distinct stages, the production and comprehension of language. So it is natural to ask whether our best linguistic tools might prove instrumental to one of our most important linguistic tasks involving language. Researchers and practitioners have recently asked whether LLMs can support democratic deliberation by leveraging abilities to summarise content, to aggregate opinions over summarised content, and to represent voters by predicting their preferences over unseen choices. In this paper, we assess whether using LLMs to perform these and related functions really advances the democratic values behind these experiments. We suggest that the record is mixed. In the presence of background inequality of power and resources, as well as deep moral and political disagreement, we should not use LLMs to automate non-instrumentally valuable components of the democratic process, nor should we be tempted to supplant fair and transparent decision-making procedures that are practically necessary to reconcile competing interests and values. However, while LLMs should be kept well clear of formal democratic decision-making processes, we think they can instead strengthen the informal public sphere—the arena that mediates between democratic governments and the polities that they serve, in which political communities seek information, form civic publics, and hold their leaders to account."]]></description>
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    <title>Democracy by Mistake: How the Errors of Autocrats Trigger Transitions to Freer Government | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How does democracy emerge from authoritarian rule? Certain influential theories contend that incumbents deliberately choose to share or surrender power. They do so to prevent revolution, motivate citizens to fight wars, incentivize governments to provide public goods, outbid elite rivals, or limit factional violence. Examining the history of all democratizations since 1800, I show that such deliberate-choice arguments may help explain up to about one-third of the cases. In more than two-thirds, the evidence suggests that democratization occurred not because incumbents chose it but because, while trying to prevent it, they made mistakes that weakened their hold on power. Rather than being granted by farsighted elites or forced on them by the rise of new classes, democracy appears to have spread most often because of incumbents’ missteps that triggered previously latent factors."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I like this (unsurprisingly), but this gives me pause as a definition:

"Building on Dewey, we define a public as an evolving, living relationship between the people who collectively constitute it, and the feedback loops (technologically mediated or otherwise) that allow them to understand themselves as a collective and act accordingly."

How do I distinguish an "evolving, living relationship" from some other sort of relationship?  (Do they really mean "relationship", or would "combination of" or "complex of" be better?)

]]></description>
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    <title>Tomorrow’s Democracy Is Open Source</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- This is leaning very, very heavily on LLMs being able to accurately summarize complicated positions on all sorts of new and evolving issues.  Which would be _nice_...]]></description>
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    <title>What AI Can't Do for Democracy - Boston Review</title>
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    <title>Introduction to the Symposium on Lisa Herzog’s Citizen Knowledge. Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-22T15:23:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lisa Herzog’s Citizen Knowledge. Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy is a significant contribution to political epistemology that addresses the causes of contemporary democracies’ epistemic deficiencies and considers how to improve the way they deal with knowledge. The field of political epistemology has been burgeoning over the last decade, in the wake of debates relative to “deliberative democracy” (e.g., Landemore, 2022), the technocratic dimension of democratic regimes (e.g., Friedman, 2019), and the crisis of the “epistemic order” of liberal democracy (e.g., Rauch, 2021). The ambition of Lisa Herzog’s book transpires in the fact that it covers most of the major issues of political epistemology tackled separately by these debates within a new framework of “democratic institutionalism.” Democracies have a problem with knowledge and Herzog’s main claim is that the solution to it lies in rethinking their institutional infrastructure through the articulation of three key mechanisms for creating, transmitting, and processing knowledge: markets, expert communities, and democratic deliberation. The claim that problems with knowledge can be a major impediment to democratic self-governance is not new.1 However, Herzog’s treatment of this claim impresses by its depth and scope, relying on rich and recent social scientific literature to suggest how to redesign the epistemic institutions of contemporary democracies."

--- Hadn't heard of the book but this looks interesting & definitely relevant to our interests.]]></description>
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    <title>Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy, Carlson</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-12T18:16:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo217680791</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Accurate information is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, researchers interested in how information is disseminated have focused on mass media, but the reality is that many Americans today do not learn about politics from direct engagement with the news. Rather, about one-third of Americans learn chiefly from information shared by their peers in conversation or on social media. How does this socially transmitted information differ from that communicated by traditional media? What are the consequences for political attitudes and behavior?
"Drawing on evidence from experiments, surveys, and social media, Taylor N. Carlson finds that, as information flows first from the media then person to person, it becomes sparse, more biased, less accurate, and more mobilizing. The result is what Carlson calls distorted democracy. Although socially transmitted information does not necessarily render democracy dysfunctional, Through the Grapevine shows how it contributes to a public that is at once underinformed, polarized, and engaged."

--- Dr. Bartlett, Dr. F. C. Bartlett, please call your office...
--- It's been a long time since I skimmed Katz & Lazarsfeld, but wasn't the fact that lots of Americans don't engage directly with political media, but get such news indirectly through family and friends, rather central to them?
--- In our library: [https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226834160]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/69/and-democracy-for-all/">
    <title>And Democracy for All : Democracy Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2023-07-09T23:43:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/69/and-democracy-for-all/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Review of DSA's latest book by the great Margaret Levi.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB book_reviews political_philosophy democracy allen.danielle_s. levi.margaret have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/how-deliberation-happens-enabling-deliberative-reason/6558F69855ADA8B15BF2EC2E5D403E71">
    <title>How Deliberation Happens: Enabling Deliberative Reason | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-18T12:28:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/how-deliberation-happens-enabling-deliberative-reason/6558F69855ADA8B15BF2EC2E5D403E71</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We show, against skeptics, that however latent it may be in everyday life, the ability to reason effectively about politics can readily be activated when conditions are right. We justify a definition of deliberative reason, then develop and apply a Deliberative Reason Index (DRI) to analysis of 19 deliberative forums. DRI increases over the course of deliberation in the vast majority of cases, but the extent of this increase depends upon enabling conditions. Group building that activates deliberative norms makes the biggest difference, particularly in enabling participants to cope with complexity. Without group building, complexity becomes more difficult to surmount, and planned direct impact on policy decisions may actually impede reasoning where complexity is high. Our findings have implications beyond forum design for the staging of political discourse in the wider public sphere."]]></description>
<dc:subject>collective_cognition democracy social_life_of_the_mind re:democratic_cognition via:henry_farrell in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7043.html">
    <title>interfluidity » Continuous elections</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-17T15:21:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7043.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[---My gut reaction is that this is a bad idea, but I have trouble articulating why.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy institutions via:henry_farrell have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12486">
    <title>Democracy's Pin Factory: Issue Specialization, the Division of Cognitive Labor, and Epistemic Performance - Elliott - 2020 - American Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-07T15:44:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12486</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This article describes how issue specialization through deliberative institutions called “issue publics” can improve the quality of democratic decision making. Issue specialization improves decisions by instantiating a cognitive division of labor among the mass public, which creates efficiencies in decision making and grants large groups of average citizens a scalable advantage over small groups of even the smartest and most capable individuals. Issue specialization further improves decisions by capturing issue-specific information, concentrating it within the specialized deliberative enclaves of issue publics, and refining citizens’ issue preferences. These advantages are brought to bear in wider democratic politics and policy through information shortcuts and through the specialized electoral incentives of representatives. The article responds to concerns about political ignorance, polarization/partisanship, rent seeking, and socioeconomic bias and argues that issue specialization can provide a valuable brake to polarization yet needs institutional supplementation to engage marginalized citizens and combat bias."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://osf.io/n32zk/">
    <title>OSF Preprints | Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-23T05:45:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://osf.io/n32zk/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Despite the general narrative that we are in a period of global democratic decline, there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to assess whether this is systematically true. Most existing studies of backsliding rely heavily, if not entirely, on subjective indicators which rely on expert coder judgement. We survey other more objective indicators of democracy (such as incumbent performance in elections), and find little evidence of global democratic decline over the last decade. To explain the discrepancy between trends in subjective and objective indicators, we develop formal models that consider the role of coder bias and leaders strategically using more subtle undemocratic action. The simplest explanation is that recent declines in average democracy scores are driven by changes in coder bias. While we cannot rule out the possibility that the world is experiencing major democratic backsliding almost exclusively in ways which require subjective judgement to detect, this claim not justified by existing evidence."]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_measurement democracy political_science in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2674?ln=en">
    <title>Elites and Democracy: Italian Elite Theory, American Political Science and the Problem of Plutocracy</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-18T04:18:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2674?ln=en</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Contemporary political thought has fetishized a product of its own invention: the elite theory of democracy. This dissertation explores how this distinctly modern category of democratic thought came into existence, how it acquired such a stronghold in twentieth century American political science, and why it is based on suspect premises. It is generally taken for granted that Gaetano Mosca, Vilfredo Pareto, Robert Michels, and Joseph Schumpeter are responsible for the 100-year-old tradition called democratic elitism, or elite democratic theory, which identifies democracy as electoral alternation of office. While it may certainly be the case that these authors became the referents of what was to become the aforementioned tradition, I offer a competing genealogy of the intellectual history, highlighting moments of transition from their original thought to our contemporary understanding of what constitutes democratic elitism. I argue that those who interpret Mosca, Pareto and Michels as “elite theorists” fundamentally distort their political thought and completely ignore their main objective: containing plutocracy in the age of modern mass politics, partially by disassociating election from popular sovereignty, and consequently, from democracy. Somehow, the cynical views of elite domination and its perversion of the democratic process expressed by Mosca, Pareto, Michels, and even Schumpeter have become, in the hands of Seymour Martin Lipset, Robert Dahl, Carol Pateman, Adam Przeworski and others, celebrations of electoral competition and representative government. I aim to convince readers that we ought to think of Mosca, Pareto, Michels and Schumpeter not as elite theorists of democracy, but rather as democratic theorists of elitism. The project isolates three constitutive ‘moments’ in the tradition, surveying authors whose work exhibits this evolution within the century of the reception. Part I focuses on the first moment, or the early phases of the evolution of this interpretive tradition represented by Mosca, Pareto, and Michels. I unearth their critiques of plutocracy in modern representative government, a long-neglected area of their political thought. Part II offers an alternative reading of Schumpeter’s seminal Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, in which I suggest that we read the work as a dare, or in the hypothetical spirit in which it was originally offered—and not as an ideal prescriptive model of democratic politics. The final chapter of Part II investigates the reception of the Italian School and Schumpeter’s thought in the early development of American political science as a discipline. The chapter assesses how American political scientists such as Robert Dahl, Peter Bachrach, Carol Pateman and Adam Przeworski took Schumpeter up on his dare to redefine democracy as competitive election, thereby transforming both the original contributions of the Italian School and the thrust of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy as a whole. In sum, my alternative narrative questions whether we should continue to identify modern democracy as synonymous with fair and free elections, and in so doing, unearths a theory of democracy which might help us disassociate these two concepts in our political vocabulary. The point of this endeavor does not seek to eliminate elections from democratic theory. Rather, I argue, deflating the democratic expectations of electoral politics can help restore the legitimacy of elections and actually revive their proper role in modern popular government."]]></description>
<dc:subject>political_philosophy history_of_ideas democracy in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/democracy-more-or-less/F73E9EC9647FFD90CE12BD746F866A74#fndtn-information">
    <title>Democracy More or Less</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-17T03:44:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why do American political reform efforts so often fail to solve the problems they intend to fix? In this book, Bruce E. Cain argues that the reasons are an unrealistic civic ideal of a fully informed and engaged citizenry and a neglect of basic pluralist principles about political intermediaries. This book traces the tension between populist and pluralist approaches as it plays out in many seemingly distinct reform topics, such as voting administration, campaign finance, excessive partisanship, redistricting, and transparency and voter participation. It explains why political primaries have promoted partisan polarization, why voting rates are declining even as election opportunities increase, and why direct democracy is not really a grassroots tool. Cain offers a reform agenda that attempts to reconcile pluralist ideals with the realities of collective-action problems and resource disparities."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/vetocracy-and-climate-adaptation/">
    <title>Vetocracy and Climate Adaptation</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-17T03:26:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/vetocracy-and-climate-adaptation/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One can argue that active citizen participation is critical to both improving legislation and to getting buy-in for difficult decisions. Dictatorships like China and Russia do not solicit citizen participation. But as my Stanford colleague Bruce Cain has argued in this 2014 book Democracy More or Less, there is a hidden flaw in the assumptions underlying the indefinite expansion of participatory democracy, which is that ordinary people will have the time, willingness, and knowledge to participate meaningfully in a complex decision-making process. The vast majority of people do not, with the result that participatory processes empower activist groups or lobbyists with a direct stake in the decision at hand. These groups do not necessarily represent “the people,” and tend to produce polarized standoffs where, for example, energy industry lobbyists face off against environmental advocates. Thus efforts to increase democratic participation may have the effect of leading to less democratic outcomes."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://mattbruenig.com/2022/12/30/the-contradictions-of-deliberative-democracy/">
    <title>The Contradictions of Deliberative Democracy – Matt Bruenig Dot Com</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-01T04:30:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mattbruenig.com/2022/12/30/the-contradictions-of-deliberative-democracy/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy social_life_of_the_mind re:democratic_cognition via:absfac have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nber.org/papers/w30794">
    <title>Liquid Democracy. Two Experiments on Delegation in Voting | NBER</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-27T14:45:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w30794</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Under Liquid Democracy (LD), decisions are taken by referendum, but voters are allowed to delegate their votes to other voters. Theory shows that in common interest problems where experts are correctly identified, the outcome can be superior to simple majority voting. However, even when experts are correctly identified, delegation must be used sparely because it reduces the variety of independent information sources. We report the results of two experiments, each studying two treatments: in one treatment, participants have the option of delegating to better informed individuals; in the second, participants can choose to abstain. The first experiment follows a tightly controlled design planned for the lab; the second is a perceptual task run online where information about signals’ precision is ambiguous. The two designs are very different, but the experiments reach the same result: in both, delegation rates are unexpectedly high and higher than abstention rates, and LD underperforms relative to both universal voting and abstention."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2021-0019">
    <title>Post-deliberative Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-21T03:16:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2021-0019</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Within any adversarial rule-governed system, it often takes time for strategically motivated agents to discover effective exploits. Once discovered, these strategies will soon be copied by all other participants. Unless it is possible to adjust the rules to preclude them, the result will be a degradation of the performance of the system. This is essentially what has happened to public political discourse in democratic states. Political actors have discovered, not just that the norm of truth can be violated in specific ways, but that many of the norms governing rational deliberation can also be violated, not just without penalty, but often for significant political gain. As a result, the level of noise (false or misleading communications) has come to drown out the signal (earnest attempts at deliberation). The post-truth political condition is the cumulative result of innovations developed by actors who adopt an essentially strategic orientation toward political communications."

--- We don't subscribe and I can't find an ungated copy...

--- ETA 2024: We now subscribe and I look forward to reading.]]></description>
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    <title>The democratic theory of “A Half-Built Garden” — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2022-09-15T14:25:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://crookedtimber.org/2022/09/07/the-democratic-theory-of-a-half-built-garden/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I hadn't realized Emrys had a new book out.
--- I have always thought bioregionalism a very silly proposal for social organization.  [Ob1990sBook: Martin Lewis, _Green Delusions_.) Having bioregionalism be a response to a _global climate crisis_ is, pardon the expression, galaxy-brained.  But R.E. is smart so I suspect she's thought about that.)]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://tompepinsky.com/2022/07/29/what-if-this-is-as-good-as-it-gets-defective-democracy-and-the-comparative-democratic-ideal/">
    <title>What If This is As Good As It Gets? Defective Democracy and the Comparative Democratic Ideal</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-17T20:52:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tompepinsky.com/2022/07/29/what-if-this-is-as-good-as-it-gets-defective-democracy-and-the-comparative-democratic-ideal/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy political_science political_philosophy pepinsky.tom</dc:subject>
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    <title>Learning about Voter Rationality – American Journal of Political Science</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-17T20:51:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ajps.org/2017/10/26/learning-about-voter-rationality/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- IIRC, this analysis also appears in _Theory and Credbility_.]]></description>
<dc:subject>political_science democracy learning_in_games ashworth.scott in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/analytical-democratic-theory-a-microfoundational-approach/739A9A928A99A47994E4585059B03398">
    <title>Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-04T14:15:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A prominent and publicly influential literature challenges the quality of democratic decision making, drawing on political science findings with specific claims about the ubiquity of cognitive bias to lament citizens’ incompetence. A competing literature in democratic theory defends the wisdom of crowds, drawing on a cluster of models in support of the capacity of ordinary citizens to produce correct outcomes. In this Letter, we draw on recent findings in psychology to demonstrate that the former literature is based on outdated and erroneous claims and that the latter is overly sanguine about the circumstances that yield reliable collective decision making. By contrast, “interactionist” scholarship shows how individual-level biases are not devastating for group problem solving, given appropriate conditions. This provides possible microfoundations for a broader research agenda similar to that implemented by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues on common-good provision, investigating how different group structures are associated with both success and failure in democratic decision making. This agenda would have implications for both democratic theory and democratic practice."

--- I am very happy to see this loosed upon the world.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197557150.001.0001/oso-9780197557150">
    <title>Future Publics: Democracy, Deliberation, and Future-Regarding Collective Action - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-04T14:01:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This book challenges the idea that democratic processes are functionally short-sighted. Many observers assume that long-term issues will be ignored or discounted in democratic systems because of the myopic preferences of voters, the political dynamics of short electoral cycles, the exclusion (or absence) of future others in decision-making processes, and the reality that democratic processes are often captured by powerful actors with dominant short-term interests. The evidence is clear: we have poorly managed many long-term issues, including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, plastics pollution, natural disaster preparedness, infrastructure maintenance, and budget deficits. This idea—which Michael K. MacKenzie calls the “democratic myopia thesis”—is a sort of conventional wisdom: It is one of those things that scholars and pundits take for granted as a truth about democracy without subjecting it to adequate critical scrutiny. This book challenges this conventional wisdom and articulates a deliberative, democratic theory of future-regarding collective action. It is argued that each part of the democratic myopia problem can be addressed through democratic—rather than authoritarian—means. At a more fundamental level, the book argues that if democratic practices are world-making activities that empower us to make our shared worlds together, they should also be understood as future-making activities. Despite the short-term dynamics associated with electoral democracy, MacKenzie argues that inclusive and deliberative democratic processes are the only means we have for making our shared futures together in collectively intentional, mutually accommodating ways."

--- This book looks very interesting, and I am inordinately amused that the author teaches at Pitt but I only learned about this from crawling through a new-books listing.  (Indeed, from remarks in the preface I think I can guess where he lives pretty closely.)]]></description>
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    <title>Citizenship in Hard Times</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-04T01:40:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? This book examines the mass politics of civic obligation in the US, UK, and Germany. Exploring threats like foreign interference in elections and polarization, Sara Wallace Goodman shows that citizens respond to threats to democracy as partisans, interpreting civic obligation through a partisan lens that is shaped by their country's political institutions. This divided, partisan citizenship makes democratic problems worse by eroding the national unity required for democratic stability. Employing novel survey experiments in a cross-national research design, Citizenship in Hard Times presents the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of citizenship norms in the face of democratic threat. In showing partisan citizens are not a reliable bulwark against democratic backsliding, Goodman identifies a key vulnerability in the mass politics of democratic order. In times of democratic crisis, defenders of democracy must work to fortify the shared foundations of democratic citizenship."]]></description>
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    <title>Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T15:27:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Democracy is hard work. It can flourish only when citizens actively participate in the business of collective self-government. Yet political participation gives rise to deep political divides over core political values. In the midst of these divisions, citizens are required to recognize one another as political equals, as fellow participants who are entitled to an equal share of political power. Research shows that political engagement exposes citizens to forces that erode their capacities to regard their political opponents as their equals. In the course of democratic participation, we come to see our opponents as inept and ill-motivated, ultimately unfit for democracy. This tendency is especially pronounced among those who are the most politically active. Democratic citizenship thus can undermine itself. With this conflict at the heart of democratic citizenship, we must actively pursue justice while also treating those who embrace injustice as our equals. Sustaining Democracy navigates this conflict. It begins by exploring partisanship and polarization, the two mechanisms by which citizens come to regard their opponents as unsuited for democracy. It then proposes strategies by which citizens can mitigate these forces without dampening their political commitments. As it turns out, the same forces that lead us to scorn our opponents can also undermine and fracture our political alliances. If we are concerned to further justice, we need to uphold civil relations with our opponents, even when we despise their political views. If we want to preserve our political friendships, we must sustain democracy with our foes."]]></description>
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    <title>Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory | Rochelle DuFord</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-12T20:36:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33817</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Democracy has become disentangled from our ordinary lives. Mere cooperation or ethical consumption now often stands in for a robust concept of solidarity that structures the entirety of sociality and forms the basis of democratic culture. How did democracy become something that is done only at ballot boxes and what role can solidarity play in reviving it? In Solidarity in Conflict, Rochelle DuFord presents a theory of solidarity fit for developing democratic life and a complementary theory of democracy that emerges from a society typified by solidarity.
"DuFord argues that solidarity is best understood as a set of relations, one agonistic and one antagonistic: the solidarity groups' internal organization and its interactions with the broader world. Such a picture of solidarity develops through careful consideration of the conflicts endemic to social relations and solidarity organizations. Examining men's rights groups, labor organizing's role in recognitional protections for LGBTQ members of society, and the debate over trans inclusion in feminist praxis, DuFord explores how conflict, in these contexts, becomes the locus of solidarity's democratic functions and thereby critiques democratic theorizing for having become either overly idealized or overly focused on building and maintaining stability. Working in the tradition of the Frankfurt School, DuFord makes a provocative case that the conflict generated by solidarity organizations can address a variety of forms of domination, oppression, and exploitation while building a democratic society."

--- My immediate reaction is that this is longing for the freedom of the ancients, rather than the moderns, and that a "society typified by solidarity", in this sense, would in fact be internally very oppressive, though it might make decisions through democratic discussion.  But I may be reading more Khaldun (and Gellner) into this than is appropriate.

]]></description>
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    <title>Democracy as a knowledge system 0.2.docx</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-24T04:59:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-27T04:02:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197568750.001.0001/oso-9780197568750</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Designing for Democracy addresses the question of how to “fix” digital technologies for democracy by examining how the design of the built environment (whether streets, sidewalks, or social media platforms) informs how, and whether, citizens can engage in democratic practices. “Democratic spaces”—built environments that support democratic politics—must have three characteristics: they must be clearly bounded, durable, and flexible. Each corresponds to a necessary democratic practice. Clearly bounded spaces make it easier to recognize what we share and with whom we share; they help us form communities. Durable spaces facilitate our attachments to the communities they house and the other members within them; they help us sustain communities. And flexible spaces facilitate the experimental habits required for democratic politics; they help us improve our communities. These three practices—recognition, attachment, and experimentalism—are the affordances a built environment must provide in order to be a “democratic space”; they are the criteria to which designers and users should be attentive when building and inhabiting the spaces of the built environment, both physical and digital. Using this theoretical framework, Designing for Democracy provides new insights into the democratic potential of digital technologies. Through extended discussions of examples like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, it suggests architectural responses to problems often associated with digital technologies—loose networks, the “personalization of politics,” and “echo chambers.” In connecting the built environment, digital technologies, and democratic theory, Designing Democracy provides blueprints for democracy in a digital age."

--- Brief self-presentation: https://www.andrewchadwick.com/blog/2021/12/07/guest-post-jennifer-forestal-writes-about-her-new-book-designing-for-democracy-how-to-build-community-in-digital-environments]]></description>
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    <title>Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Hinder or Help American Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-25T13:50:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://snfagora.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Rechanneling-Beliefs.pdf</link>
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    <title>Walter Lippmann: what we can learn from his famous critique of democracy - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-15T02:47:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2018/8/9/17540448/walter-lippmann-democracy-trump-brexit</link>
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    <title>Digital Technology and Democratic Theory, Bernholz, Landemore, Reich</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-03T00:51:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo68657177</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over—and upending—nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ubiquitous digital tools and platforms. Digital Technology and Democratic Theory looks closely at one significant facet of our rapidly evolving digital lives: how technology is radically changing our lives as citizens and participants in democratic governments.
"To understand these transformations, this book brings together contributions by scholars from multiple disciplines to wrestle with the question of how digital technologies shape, reshape, and affect fundamental questions about democracy and democratic theory. As expectations have whiplashed—from Twitter optimism in the wake of the Arab Spring to Facebook pessimism in the wake of the 2016 US election—the time is ripe for a more sober and long-term assessment. How should we take stock of digital technologies and their promise and peril for reshaping democratic societies and institutions? To answer, this volume broaches the most pressing technological changes and issues facing democracy as a philosophy and an institution."]]></description>
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    <title>Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T08:06:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Democracy requires a connection to the “will of the people.” What does that mean in a world of “fake news,” relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democracy be like if the people were really thinking in depth about the policies they must live with? This book argues that “deliberative democracy” is not utopian. It is a practical solution to many of democracy’s ills. It can supplement existing institutions with practical reforms. It can apply at all levels of government and for many different kinds of policy choices. This book speaks to a recurring dilemma: listen to the people and get the angry voices of populism or rely on widely distrusted elites and get policies that seem out of touch with the public’s concerns. Instead, there are methods for getting a representative and thoughtful public voice that is really worth listening to. Democracy is under siege in most countries. Democratic institutions have low approval and face a resurgent threat from authoritarian regimes. Deliberative democracy can provide an antidote. It can reinvigorate our democratic politics. This book draws on the author’s research with many collaborators on “Deliberative Polling”—a process he has conducted in twenty-seven countries on six continents. It contributes both to political theory and to the empirical study of public opinion and participation, and should interest anyone concerned about the future of democracy and how it can be revitalized.]]></description>
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    <title>Deliberation Naturalized: Improving Real Existing Deliberative Democracy - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T05:12:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851479.001.0001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Democratic theory’s deliberative turn has hit a dead end. It is unable to find a good way to scale up its small-scale, formally organized deliberative mini-publics to include the entire community. Some turn to deliberative systems for a way out, but none have found a credible way to deliberatively involve the citizenry at large. Deliberation Naturalized offers an alternative way out—one we have been using all along. The key sites of democratic deliberation are everyday political conversations among people networked across the community. Informal networked deliberation is how all citizens deliberate together, directly or indirectly. That is how public opinion emerges in civil society. Networked deliberation satisfies the classic deliberative desiderata of inclusion, equality, and reciprocity reasonably well, albeit differently than standard mini-publics. Reconceptualizing democratic deliberation in this way highlights some real threats to the networked mode of deliberative democracy, such as polarization, message repetition, and pluralistic ignorance. Deliberation Naturalized assesses the extent of each of those threats and proposes ways of protecting real existing deliberative democracy against them. By focusing on the mechanisms underpinning every democratic deliberation among citizens, Deliberation Naturalized offers a truly novel approach to deliberative democracy."]]></description>
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    <title>Cynical election-fraud ploys aren't harmless - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-08T04:08:09+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cruelty-as-citizenship">
    <title>Cruelty as Citizenship — University of Minnesota Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-04T23:09:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cruelty-as-citizenship</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was already part of the national conversation. Situating the contemporary debate on immigration within America’s history of indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery, the Mexican-American War, and Jim Crow, Cristina Beltrán reveals white supremacy to be white democracy—a participatory practice of racial violence, domination, and exclusion that gave white citizens the right to both wield and exceed the law. Still, Beltrán sees cause for hope in growing movements for migrant and racial justice."

--- Not my usual thing, but I've met Beltran at workshops and been impressed by her, so.]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | What Makes Trump’s Subversion Efforts So Alarming? His Collaborators - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-24T15:04:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/opinion/trump-republicans-election-2020.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics our_decrepit_institutions democracy kith_and_kin farrell.henry schneier.bruce visions_of_american_decline</dc:subject>
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    <title>Facts and Myths about Misperceptions - American Economic Association</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-08T08:52:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.34.3.220</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Misperceptions threaten to warp mass opinion and public policy on controversial issues in politics, science, and health. What explains the prevalence and persistence of these false and unsupported beliefs, which seem to be genuinely held by many people? Though limits on cognitive resources and attention play an important role, many of the most destructive misperceptions arise in domains where individuals have weak incentives to hold accurate beliefs and strong directional motivations to endorse beliefs that are consistent with a group identity such as partisanship. These tendencies are often exploited by elites who frequently create and amplify misperceptions to influence elections and public policy. Though evidence is lacking for claims of a "post-truth" era, changes in the speed with which false information travels and the extent to which it can find receptive audiences require new approaches to counter misinformation. Reducing the propagation and influence of false claims will require further efforts to inoculate people in advance of exposure (for example, media literacy), debunk false claims that are already salient or widespread (for example, fact-checking), reduce the prevalence of low-quality information (for example, changing social media algorithms), and discourage elites from promoting false information (for example, strengthening reputational sanctions)."]]></description>
<dc:subject>psychoceramics deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process psychology democracy re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator nyhan.brendan epidemiology_of_representations in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181998/open-democracy">
    <title>Open Democracy | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-25T21:25:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181998/open-democracy</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people—with the right suit, accent, wealth, and connections—are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the lost openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy in which power is genuinely accessible to ordinary citizens.
"Hélène Landemore favors the ideal of “representing and being represented in turn” over direct-democracy approaches. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Landemore recommends centering political institutions around the “open mini-public”—a large, jury-like body of randomly selected citizens gathered to define laws and policies for the polity, in connection with the larger public. She also defends five institutional principles as the foundations of an open democracy: participatory rights, deliberation, the majoritarian principle, democratic representation, and transparency.
"Open Democracy demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, today more than ever, urgently needed."]]></description>
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    <title>Social Media and International Relations</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-26T23:45:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/342545BA6FCD67BC8A5BE03B321D95C5/9781108826815AR.pdf/social_media_and_international_relations.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Democracies have long been credited with advantages ranging
from sound governance to wartime effectiveness. Advantages accrue
largely because the marketplace of ideas–freedom of expression,
freedom of the press–enables a genuine debate about the virtues and
vices of different policies in ways that inform the public, enable
accountability, and produce better policy outcomes. This Element
argues that the rise of social media undermines those democratic
advantages. When citizens in the democratic populace turn to the
marketplace of ideas, they increasingly confront misinformation, often
strategically deployed by foreign actors seeking to exploit polarization in the political landscape and undermine trust in domestic institutions.  Those actors can succeed because liberal democratic principles enshrine the media openness that becomes susceptible to foreign interference. Autocratic regimes have advantages because they can erect high barriers to entry into their own media markets. They can censor, counter, or even cut access to social media, which inoculates themselves from foreign influence and serves as a regime-preserving
function. This Element updates these fundamental theories of
international relations in light of changes to the media landscape and
offers important insights into democratic governance and the conduct
of conflict."

--- But on this account closed societies still don't have the advantage of discussion, or even the advantage of being exposed to new ways of thinking.  ]]></description>
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    <title>So you want to reform democracy - Civic Tech Thoughts from JoshData - Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-30T17:54:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/civic-tech-thoughts-from-joshdata/so-you-want-to-reform-democracy-7f3b1ef10597</link>
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    <title>How to Regulate (and Not Regulate) Social Media by Jack M. Balkin :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-16T13:31:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3484114</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This essay is the text of a keynote address given at the Association for Computing Machinery conference on Computer Science and Law on October 28, 2019.
"To understand how to regulate social media you must first understand why you want to regulate it.
"We should regulate social media companies because they are key institutions in the twenty-first century digital public sphere. A public sphere does not work properly without trusted and trustworthy intermediate institutions that are guided by professional and public-regarding norms.
"The current economic incentives of social media companies hinder them from playing this crucial role and lead them to adopt policies and practices that actually undermine the health and vibrancy of the digital public sphere.
"The point of regulating social media is to create incentives for social media companies to become responsible and trustworthy institutions that will help foster a healthy and vibrant digital public sphere. It is equally important to ensure that there are a large number of different kinds of social media companies, with diverse affordances, value systems, and innovations.
"Treating social media companies as state actors or as public utilities does not solve the problems of the digital public sphere. One might create a public option for social media services, but this, too, cannot serve as a general solution to the problems that social media create. Instead, this essay describes three policy levers that might create better incentives for privately-owned companies: (1) antitrust and competition law; (2) privacy and consumer protection law; and (3) a careful balance of intermediary liability and intermediary immunity rules."]]></description>
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    <title>Decision Makers · Chris Hayes</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-29T01:06:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chrishayes.org/articles/decision-makers/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[16 years later, the bellicose isolationists are in the saddle and ride mankind.
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate. Corporate executives issue directives to employees, who are normally prepared to comply with them, and impose penalties such as termination on those who fail to comply. The decisions made by corporate executives also affect people outside the corporation: investors, customers, suppliers, the general public. What can justify authority with such a broad reach? Political philosopher Christopher McMahon argues that the social authority of corporate executives is best understood as a form of political authority. Although corporations are privately owned, they must be managed in a way that promotes the public good. Public Capitalism begins with this claim and explores its implications for issues including corporate property rights, the moral status of corporations, the permissibility of layoffs and plant closings, and the legislative role played by corporate executives. Corporate executives acquire the status of public officials of a certain kind, who can be asked to work toward social goods in addition to prosperity. Public Capitalism sketches a new framework for discussion of the moral and political issues faced by corporate executives."]]></description>
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    <title>Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress on JSTOR</title>
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    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7rr34</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted congress us_politics political_science democracy to_download in_NB</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2019-08-22T04:46:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1086/233897">
    <title>What is the point of equality? (Anderson, 1999)</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-18T18:16:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1086/233897</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>political_philosophy democracy equality anderson.elizabeth</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/overdoing-democracy-9780190924195?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#">
    <title>Overdoing Democracy - Robert B. Talisse - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-08T13:51:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/overdoing-democracy-9780190924195?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those with whom we don't see eye to eye. Making matters worse, we are being appealed to--by companies, products, and teams, for example--based on our deep-seated, polarized beliefs. Our choice of Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts, Costco or Sam's Club, soccer or football, New York Times vs. Wall Street Journal is an expression of our beliefs and a reinforcement of our choice to stay within the confines of our self-selected political community, making us even more polarized. Letting it bleed into these choices in every corner of our lives, we take democracy too far and it ends up keeping us apart. We overdo democracy. 
"When we overdo democracy, we allow it to undermine and crowd out many of the most important social goods that democracy is meant to deliver. What's more, in overdoing democracy, we spoil certain social goods that democracy needs in order to flourish. A thriving democracy needs citizens to reserve space in their social lives for collective activities that are not structured by political allegiances. To ensure the health and the future of democracy, we need to forge civic friendships by working together in social contexts in which political affiliations and party loyalties are not merely suppressed, but utterly beside the point. 
"Drawing on his extensive research, Talisse sheds light on just how deeply entrenched our political polarization has become and opens our eyes to how often we allow politics to dictate the way we see almost everything. By limiting our interactions with others and our experience of the world so that we only encounter the politically like-minded, we are actually damaging the thing that democracy is meant to preserve in the first place: the more fundamental good of recognizing and respecting each other's standing as equals."]]></description>
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    <title>Renovating Democracy by Nathan Gardels, Nicolas Berggruen - Hardcover - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-24T21:28:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303607/renovating-democracy?mc_cid=2e9f6f4ef1&amp;mc_eid=3d88be13af</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challenging how we think about the social contract.
"With fierce clarity and conviction, Renovating Democracy tears down our basic structures and challenges us to conceive of an alternative framework for governance. To truly renovate our global systems, the authors argue for empowering participation without populism by integrating social networks and direct democracy into the system with new mediating institutions that complement representative government. They outline steps to reconfigure the social contract to protect workers instead of jobs, shifting from a “redistribution” after wealth to “pre-distribution” with the aim to enhance the skills and assets of those less well-off. Lastly, they argue for harnessing globalization through “positive nationalism” at home while advocating for global cooperation—specifically with a partnership with China—to create a viable rules-based world order. "]]></description>
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    <title>Direct Deliberative Democracy: How Citizens Can Rule, Crittenden, Campbell</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-17T00:49:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As American politics becomes ever more dominated by powerful vested interests, positive change seems permanently stymied. Left out in the cold by the political process, citizens are frustrated and despairing. How can we take back our democracy from the grip of oligarchy and bring power to the people?
"In Direct Deliberative Democracy, Jack Crittenden and Debra Campbell offer up a better way for government to reflect citizens’ interests. It begins with a startlingly basic question: “Why don’t we the people govern?” In this provocative book, the authors mount a powerful case that the time has come for more direct democracy in the United States, showing that the circumstances that made the Constitutional framers’ arguments so convincing more than two hundred years ago have changed dramatically—and that our democracy needs to change with them. With money, lobbyists, and corporations now dominating local, state, and national elections, the authors argue that now is the time for citizens to take control of their government by deliberating together to make public policies and laws directly. At the heart of their approach is a proposal for a new system of “legislative juries,” in which the jury system would be used as a model for selecting citizens to create ballot initiatives. This would enable citizens to level the playing field, bring little-heard voices into the political arena, and begin the process of transforming our democracy into one that works for, not against, its citizens. "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Arguments about the American ballot initiative process date back to the Progressive Era, when processes allowing citizens to decide policy questions directly were established in about half of the states.
"When political scientists began to systematically examine whether the state ballot initiative process had spillover consequences, they found the initiative process had a positive impact on civic engagement. Recent scholarship casts doubt on these conclusions, determining the ballot initiative process did not make people believe they could influence the political process, trust the government, or be more knowledgeable about politics in general. However, in some circumstances, it got them to show up at the polls, and increased interest groups’ participation in the political arena. In Initiatives without Engagement, Dyck and Lascher develop and test a theory that can explain the evidence that the ballot initiative process fails to provide the civic benefits commonly claimed for it, and the evidence that it increases political participation. This theory argues that the basic function of direct democracy is to create more conflict in society. "]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2019-02-20T14:57:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786803610/the-digital-party/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the United States and Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom, to Jean-Luc Melenchon's presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the digital party.
"These new political formations tap into the potential of social media to gain consensus, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Paolo Gerbaudo looks at the restructuring of political parties and campaigns in the time of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and big data. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers, he argues that the digital party is very different from the class-based “mass party” of the industrial era, and offers promising new solutions to social polarization and the failures of liberal democracy today."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/uninformed-9780190263720?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#">
    <title>Uninformed - Hardcover - Arthur Lupia - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-14T18:05:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/uninformed-9780190263720?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very little about politics. Hundreds of surveys document vast numbers of citizens answering even basic questions about government incorrectly. Given this unfortunate state of affairs, it is not surprising that more knowledgeable people often deride the public for its ignorance. Some experts even think that less informed citizens should stay out of politics altogether. 
"As Arthur Lupia shows in Uninformed, this is not constructive. At root, critics of public ignorance fundamentally misunderstand the problem. Many experts believe that simply providing people with more facts will make them more competent voters. However, these experts fail to understand how most people learn, and hence don't really know what types of information are even relevant to voters. Feeding them information they don't find relevant does not address the problem. In other words, before educating the public, we need to educate the educators. 
"Lupia offers not just a critique, though; he also has solutions. Drawing from a variety of areas of research on topics like attention span and political psychology, he shows how we can actually increase issue competence among voters in areas ranging from gun regulation to climate change. To attack the problem, he develops an arsenal of techniques to effectively convey to people information they actually care about. 
"Citizens sometimes lack the knowledge that they need to make competent political choices, and it is undeniable that greater knowledge can improve decision making. But we need to understand that voters either don't care about or pay attention to much of the information that experts think is important. Uninformed provides the keys to improving political knowledge and civic competence: understanding what information is important to and knowing how to best convey it to them."

--- Huh, why didn't I know about this?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317136965">
    <title>Facebook Democracy (Open Access) | The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life | Taylor &amp; Francis Group</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-11T17:30:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317136965</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In July 2010, Facebook had over 500 million subscribers worldwide and the rapid rise of the site prompted Time magazine to name Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg its person of the year for 2010. This novel book advances our understanding of how democratic citizens are transformed by the "Facebook revolution". Despite increasing interest in politics and popular media, there has been little academic work on the impact of Facebook on politics in general, and on democratic processes in particular. The work that does exist has been limited to Facebook's impact on politics as a mobilization tool used by social movement activists. In this book, José Marichal argues that understanding Facebook's impact on political processes requires an understanding of how Facebook's architecture of disclosure shapes the construction of individuals' political identities by drawing users further into their pre-selected social networks. Drawing on a number of disciplines and an ethnographic analysis of 250 Facebook political groups, Marichal explores how Facebook's emphasis on social connection impacts key dimensions of political participation: e.g., mobilization, deliberation, and attitude formation."

--- From 2012; somewhat interested to see how it holds up.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/11/29/forget-fake-news-social-media-making-democracy-less-democratic/">
    <title>Forget Fake News. Social Media Is Making Democracy Less Democratic. | Essay | Zócalo Public Square</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-09T19:36:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/11/29/forget-fake-news-social-media-making-democracy-less-democratic/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy networked_life re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator to_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/critical-elitism/46FF94FAAF04EC3DF3EF48E2CA312011#fndtn-information">
    <title>Critical Elitism by Alfred Moore</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-06T03:02:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/critical-elitism/46FF94FAAF04EC3DF3EF48E2CA312011#fndtn-information</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Democracies have a problem with expertise. Expert knowledge both mediates and facilitates public apprehension of problems, yet it also threatens to exclude the public from consequential judgments and decisions located in technical domains. This book asks: how can we have inclusion without collapsing the very concept of expertise? How can public judgment be engaged in expert practices in a way that does not reduce to populism? Drawing on deliberative democratic theory and social studies of science, Critical Elitism argues that expert authority depends ultimately on the exercise of public judgment in a context in which there are live possibilities for protest, opposition and scrutiny. This account points to new ways of looking at the role of civil society, expert institutions, and democratic innovations in the constitution of expert authority within democratic systems. Using the example of climate science, Critical Elitism highlights not only the risks but also the benefits of contesting expertise."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted democracy expertise re:democratic_cognition in_NB downloaded</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/oral-democracy/1389E93F8F69AA1AB07B434124CE7582#fndtn-information">
    <title>Oral Democracy by Paromita Sanyal</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-06T02:59:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/oral-democracy/1389E93F8F69AA1AB07B434124CE7582#fndtn-information</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sabhas, sampled within the framework of a natural experiment, allowing the authors to study how state policy affects the quality of discourse, citizens' discursive performances and state enactments embodied by elected leaders and public officials. By drawing out the varieties of speech apparent in citizen and state interactions, their analysis shows that citizens' oral participation in development and governance can be improved by strengthening deliberative spaces through policy. Even in conditions of high inequality and illiteracy, gram sabhas can create discursive equality by developing the 'oral competence' of citizens and establishing a space in which they can articulate their interests. The authors develop the concept of 'oral democracy' to aid the understanding of deliberative systems in non-Western and developing countries. This title is also available as Open Access."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted downloaded institutions democracy india re:democratic_cognition in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2018/01/charisma-and-representation.html?m=1">
    <title>Abandoned Footnotes: Charisma and Representation</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-05T19:28:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2018/01/charisma-and-representation.html?m=1</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>charisma democracy have_read political_philosophy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/public-reason-confucianism-democratic-perfectionism-and-constitutionalism-east-asia?format=PB">
    <title>Public reason confucianism democratic perfectionism and constitutionalism east asia | Political theory | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-05T04:58:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/public-reason-confucianism-democratic-perfectionism-and-constitutionalism-east-asia?format=PB</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Recent proposals concerning Confucian meritocratic perfectionism have justified Confucian perfectionism in terms of political meritocracy. In contrast, 'Confucian democratic perfectionism' is a form of comprehensive Confucian perfectionism that can accommodate a plurality of values in civil society. It is also fully compatible with core values of democracy such as popular sovereignty, political equality, and the right to political participation. Sungmoon Kim presents 'public reason Confucianism' as the most attractive option for contemporary East Asian societies that are historically and culturally Confucian. Public reason Confucianism is a particular style of Confucian democratic perfectionism in which comprehensive Confucianism is connected with perfectionism via a distinctive form of public reason. It calls for an active role for the democratic state in promoting a Confucian conception of the good life, at the heart of which are such core Confucian values as filial piety and ritual propriety."

]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB political_philosophy moral_philosophy confucianism democracy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo28381225">
    <title>How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, Ginsburg, Huq</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-07T15:22:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo28381225</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self rule. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump marked a decisive turning point for many. What kind of president calls the news media the “enemy of the American people,” or sees a moral equivalence between violent neo-Nazi protesters in paramilitary formation and residents of a college town defending the racial and ethnic diversity of their homes? Yet, whatever our concerns about the current president, we can be assured that the Constitution offers safeguards to protect against lasting damage—or can we?
"How to Save a Constitutional Democracy mounts an urgent argument that we can no longer afford to be complacent. Drawing on a rich array of other countries’ experiences with democratic backsliding, Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq show how constitutional rules can either hinder or hasten the decline of democratic institutions. The checks and balances of the federal government, a robust civil society and media, and individual rights—such as those enshrined in the First Amendment—do not necessarily succeed as bulwarks against democratic decline. Rather, Ginsburg and Huq contend, the sobering reality for the United States is that, to a much greater extent than is commonly realized, the Constitution’s design makes democratic erosion more, not less, likely. Its structural rigidity has had the unforeseen consequence of empowering the Supreme Court to fill in some details—often with doctrines that ultimately facilitate rather than inhibit the infringement of rights. Even the bright spots in the Constitution—the First Amendment, for example—may have perverse consequences in the hands of a deft communicator, who can degrade the public sphere by wielding hateful language that would be banned in many other democracies. But we—and the rest of the world—can do better. The authors conclude by laying out practical steps for how laws and constitutional design can play a more positive role in managing the risk of democratic decline."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted us_politics our_decrepit_institutions democracy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/power-of-the-multitude-answering-epistemic-challenges-to-democracy/1A5DD03F5D2A08589D98F1A46A65C00D">
    <title>The Power of the Multitude: Answering Epistemic Challenges to Democracy | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-05T00:25:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/power-of-the-multitude-answering-epistemic-challenges-to-democracy/1A5DD03F5D2A08589D98F1A46A65C00D</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Recent years have witnessed growing controversy over the “wisdom of the multitude.” As epistemic critics drawing on vast empirical evidence have cast doubt on the political competence of ordinary citizens, epistemic democrats have offered a defense of democracy grounded largely in analogies and formal results. So far, I argue, the critics have been more convincing. Nevertheless, democracy can be defended on instrumental grounds, and this article demonstrates an alternative approach. Instead of implausibly upholding the epistemic reliability of average voters, I observe that competitive elections, universal suffrage, and discretionary state power disable certain potent mechanisms of elite entrenchment. By reserving particular forms of power for the multitude of ordinary citizens, they make democratic states more resistant to dangerous forms of capture than non-democratic alternatives. My approach thus offers a robust defense of electoral democracy, yet cautions against expecting too much from it—motivating a thicker conception of democracy, writ large."]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy political_economy re:democratic_cognition via:henry_farrell in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-110113-121908">
    <title>Epistemic Democracy and Its Challenges | Annual Review of Political Science</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-05T00:25:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-110113-121908</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Epistemic democracy defends the capacity of “the many” to make correct decisions and seeks to justify democracy by reference to this ability. Epistemic democrats marshal substantial evidence from the history of political thought and a set of models to support their claims. The essay assesses this evidence and argues in favor of more empirical testing. It also cautions against using the contextually limited evidence of wise decisions as a basis for justifying democratic decision making. Instead, the article sketches a “deflationary model” that relies on neither an independent standard of correctness nor the more ambitious assertions of the reliability of the mechanisms. That model, termed judgment democracy, retains epistemic democracy's attractive respect for individual judgments and concern with institutional design, while eschewing its least plausible features."]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy political_philosophy collective_cognition re:democratic_cognition kith_and_kin in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300232752/responsible-parties">
    <title>Responsible Parties | Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-04T19:49:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300232752/responsible-parties</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere.
"Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted political_science democracy re:democratic_cognition shapiro.ian in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10402.html">
    <title>Mendelberg, T. and Karpowitz, C.: The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions (Paperback and eBook) | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-14T19:04:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10402.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to improve the representation of women will fall short unless they address institutional rules that impede women's voices.
"Using groundbreaking experimental research supplemented with analysis of school boards, Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg demonstrate how the effects of rules depend on women’s numbers, so that small numbers are not fatal with a consensus process, but consensus is not always beneficial when there are large numbers of women. Men and women enter deliberative settings facing different expectations about their influence and authority. Karpowitz and Mendelberg reveal how the wrong institutional rules can exacerbate women’s deficit of authority while the right rules can close it, and, in the process, establish more cooperative norms of group behavior and more generous policies for the disadvantaged. Rules and numbers have far-reaching implications for the representation of women and their interests."]]></description>
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    <title>Lord Cornwallis Is Dead — Nico Slate | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-02T15:10:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Do democratic states bring about greater social and economic equality among their citizens? Modern India embraced universal suffrage from the moment it was free of British imperial rule in 1947—a historical rarity in the West—and yet Indian citizens are far from realizing equality today. The United States, the first British colony to gain independence, continues to struggle with intolerance and the consequences of growing inequality in the twenty-first century.
"From Boston Brahmins to Mohandas Gandhi, from Hollywood to Bollywood, Nico Slate traces the continuous transmission of democratic ideas between two former colonies of the British Empire. Gandhian nonviolence lay at the heart of the American civil rights movement. Key Indian freedom fighters sharpened their political thought while studying and working in the United States. And the Indian American community fought its own battle for civil rights.
"Spanning three centuries and two continents, Lord Cornwallis Is Dead offers a new look at the struggle for freedom that linked two nations. While the United States remains the world’s most powerful democracy, India—the world’s most populous democracy—is growing in wealth and influence. Together, the United States and India will play a predominant role in shaping the future of democracy."]]></description>
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