Most contemporary commentators posit a tension between multilateralism and democracy.[1. This paper draws on a number of previous publications, which cite the extensive literature on this subject. A selection includes th ...

First Observation. Anxieties of Democracy: Generalizing from the Global North? Anxieties of democracy. This phrase is reminiscent of the kinds of conversations that Latin Americanists had in the 1980s: would the t ...

From its ancient provenance, democracy has always provoked anxieties of excess, lawlessness, and spontaneity, and thus also the anxiety of having within itself the disruptive energy to unsettle any stable regime of power ...

1. In Latin America, the institutions of representative democracy have only very rarely been robust enough to successfully represent society. From these institutions' inception as republics, the capitalist economy of Lat ...

Representative democracy is a matrix that engenders and sustains five connected, but distinct, principles of modern government: Popular sovereignty: citizens have a political voice, and their interests and preferenc ...

How can representative governments promote gender justice in advanced democracies and make headway against the pervasive subjugation of women in emerging ones? What is the likelihood that such issues will be addressed an ...

Anxiety about Democracy: Why Now? Anxiety is rising among mass publics and analysts of governance about whether democratic governments can cope with the policy problems now facing them (Schäfer and Streeck 2013; Berg ...

A focus on “Anxieties of Democracy” at this time raises a paradox. For all the talk of the rise of state capitalism, the challenge from China, and the ineffectiveness of democratic governance, “real existing” alt ...