municipal corruption and reform, political participation, and democracy in immigrant communities, the paper examines the Bell …

presents a challenge for the conceptions of agonistic democracy developed by Beltran and others and argues that what is called …

of American democracy. While most studies isolate and consider separately the three documents produced by Beaumont and … Tocqueville, this study reads Tocqueville's Democracy in American (1835), Beaumont's novel Marie, Or Slavery in the United States … of prisons, slavery, and democracy …

democratic theory and the institutional “case” of direct legislation, this paper develops an alternative standard for the … that contribute to a diverse inter-institutional agenda. Applying this judgment-based standard to direct legislation …

No study to date has addressed the potential of deliberative democracy in post-conflict societies. Merging basic … democracy is not only possible in post-conflict societies, nor is it merely desirable in the normative sense. Post …-conflict societies are to transform the deadlocks of civil war. However, we cannot speak of deliberative democracy in post …

Why turn to populism as a resource for understanding the challenges and possibilities of democracy, when we live amidst … social, economic, and political constellations that pervert both the populist foundations of democracy and the democratic … politics and democracy are generated by left and right forms of populism, in what ways they reinforce existing configurations …