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Democracy Before and After the State

Democracy Before and After the State [This conversation with Francis Fukuyama first appears in the book Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought.] Citation guide: “Fukuyama, Francis and Jean-Paul Gagnon. 2014. “Democracy Before and After the State” in Gagnon, JP, Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 42-55. Defining democracy […]

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The Cultural Turn in New Democratic Theory

The Cultural Turn in New Democratic Theory [This conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo first appears in the book Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought.] Citation guide: Jahanbegloo, Ramin and Jean-Paul Gagnon. 2014. “The Cultural Turn in New Democratic Theory”. In JP Gagnon, Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought (Palgrave Macmillan). Pp. 56-71. […]

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The Changing History of Democracy

The Changing History of Democracy [This conversation with Albert Weale first appears in the book Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought.] Citation guide: Weale, Albert and Jean-Paul Gagnon. 2014. “The Changing History of Democracy”. In Gagnon, JP, Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 30-41. Defining democracy Gagnon: How […]

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Nonhuman Democratic Practice: Democracy among the Bees

Nonhuman Democratic Practice: Democracy among the Bees [This conversation with Thomas Seeley was first published in the book Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought.] Citation guide: Seeley, Thomas and Jean-Paul Gagnon. 2014. “Nonhuman Democratic Practice: Democracy Among the Bees”. In Gagnon, JP, Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. […]

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Global Leviathan Rising

Global Leviathan Rising [This conversation with Noam Chomsky was first published in the book Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought.] Defining democracy Gagnon: How do you define democracy? Chomsky: At the very minimum, a democracy is a political system in which popular opinion has a substantial – one might say decisive – influence […]

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Conclusion: Shapes of the Frontier

Conclusion: Shapes of the Frontier [This is the final chapter of the book Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought first published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.] Shapes – they are objects of differing dimensions, compositions and structures. Together they can make striking mosaics. On their own they can offer conceptual boundaries. Shapes are […]

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Why Democratic Theory?

Why Democratic Theory? [Co-authored with Mark Chou, this introductory article to the first issue of the journal Democratic Theory makes the case for the field’s importance in, and relevance to, our political times.] The post-1945 world is well documented for its surge in the study of and struggles over “democracy”. The Eurocentric and then Pacific […]

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The Crisis of Democracy: Which Crisis? Which Democracy?

The Crisis of Democracy: Which Crisis? Which Democracy? [This introductory article (editorial) was co-authored with Selen Ercan and first published in Democratic Theory. It introduces a special issue on the “crisis of democracy” which came out of a national symposium on the subject hosted by the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra.] Abstract: […]

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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 […]

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The ‘will of the people’? It’s the bastardisation of democracy

The ‘will of the people’? It’s the bastardisation of democracy [First published by The Conversation, this article was co-authored with Mark Chou.] The Abbott government, when faced with opposition over the past year, has commonly resorted to two lifeline statements. The first is that it’s carrying out the “will of the people”. And the second is […]

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