Democracies and Their Crises Reconsidered
Democracies and Their Crises Reconsidered [This conversation with Wolfgang Merkel was first published in Democratic Theory. The talk was recorded at the University of Canberra during an international symposium.] Citation guide: Wolfgang Merkel and Jean-Paul Gagnon. 2016. “Democracies and Their Crises Reconsidered”. Democratic Theory, 3 (1): 91-108. Defining democracy Gagnon: How do you define democracy? Merkel: In […]
Realizing Interspecies Democracy: The Preconditions for an Egalitarian, Multispecies, World
Realizing Interspecies Democracy: The Preconditions for an Egalitarian, Multispecies, World [This conversation with Janneke Vink and Sue Donaldson first appears in Democratic Theory.] Citation guide: Janneke Vink, Sue Donaldson, Jean-Paul Gagnon. 2021. “Realizing Interspecies Democracy: The Preconditions for an Egalitarian, Multispecies, World”. Democratic Theory, 8 (1): 71-95. Abstract: Sue Donaldson, Janneke Vink, and Jean-Paul Gagnon discuss the problem […]
The End of Representative Politics, Revisited
The End of Representative Politics, Revisited [This conversation with Simon Tormey, filmed at his University of Sydney office, first appears in Democratic Theory. It is based on his book, The End of Representative Politics, published by Polity in 2015.] Citation guide: Simon Tormey and Jean-Paul Gagnon. 2017. “The End of Representative Politics, Revisited”. Democratic Theory, […]
A Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy
A Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy [This conversation with Stephen Elstub on deliberative democracy was first published in Democratic Theory.] AbstractStephen Elstub articulates that deliberative democracy, as a theory, can be seen as having gone through various distinct generations. The first generation was a period where the normative values and the justifications for deliberative democracy were […]
The Reflexive Modernization of Democracy
The Reflexive Modernization of Democracy [Ulrich Beck was at the London School of Economics when I was visiting London in early 2012 (I had a conversation with David Held then, too). I have a memory of us finding an occasional room to use, some hot desk, and sprucing it up a bit with books in […]
Questions about the New Democratic Theory
Questions about the New Democratic Theory [This conversation with David Held was our second. The first, on cosmopolitanism and democracy, appears here. For the second, I traveled from Toronto to London in early 2012 and met with him at his (then) London School of Economics office (I remember a football jersey, signed, in a frame, […]
Representing Nature and Contemporary Democracy
Representing Nature and Contemporary Democracy [This conversation was originally published by Democratic Theory (vol 1, issue 2, pp. 94-108) in 2014. The most distinct memory I have of the discussion on the whole was the time we spent focusing on just how difficult it is to talk to other people, to break into different enclaves, […]
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