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Supplement B - 2,234 Descriptions of Democracy: An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism

SUPPLEMENT B – 2,234 Descriptions of Democracy: An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism [This appendix is companion to a research note first published by Democratic Theory.] Citation guide: Gagnon, Jean-Paul. 2018. “Supplement B – 2,234 Descriptions of Democracy: An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism”. Democratic Theory, 5 (1): 92-113. Explanatory Note What follows is a database of real […]

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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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