In this paper we examine the emergence of democratic deliberation in a crowdsourced law reform process. The empirical context of the study is a crowdsourced legislative reform in Finland, initiated by the Finnish government. The findings suggest that online exchanges in the crowdsourced process...

This article reports a pioneering case study of a crowdsourced law-reform process in Finland. In the crowdsourcing experiment, the public was invited to contribute to the law-reform process by sharing their knowledge and ideas for a better policy. This article introduces a normative design...

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis an important conceptual battleground for democratic theorists ought to be, it would seem, the capitalist firm. We are now painfully aware that the typical model of government in so-called “investor-owned” firms remains profoundly oligarchic,...

This paper proposes an interpretation of representative assemblies that strikes a conceptual middle ground between Burke's ideal of an assembly of trustees and the Anti-Federalists' ideal of a mirror image of the people. The normative appeal of this conceptual middle ground is supported by an...

This paper argues that majority rule not just a fair way to aggregate and adjudicate between diverse preferences, but also, and perhaps primarily, a predictive tool tapping the famous “wisdom of crowds.” The assumption is here that the crowd is wise not primarily because it is numerous but...