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Multilateralism and Democracy

November 30, 2014 By AOD Admin In Essays, Global Lenses, History/Theory 0 Comments

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 ...

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Four Observations about Democratic Anxieties (or their Absence) in Latin America

November 30, 2014 By AOD Admin In Essays, Global Lenses, Governance 0 Comments

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 ...

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Democratic and Institutional Anxieties

November 6, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Global Lenses, History/Theory 0 Comments

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 ...

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Representative Democracy and Alternative Models: Notes on Latin America

November 6, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Global Lenses, History/Theory 0 Comments

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 ...

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In Defense of Permeability

November 6, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Global Lenses, History/Theory 0 Comments

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 ...

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The Politics of Policies to Promote Gender Justice

November 6, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Equality/Inequality, Essays, Global Lenses 0 Comments

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 ...

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Anxiety about Democracy: Why Now?

May 6, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Global Lenses, Governance, History/Theory 0 Comments

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 ...

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Representative Democracy and Alternative Models

May 1, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Global Lenses, History/Theory 0 Comments

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 ...

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The Democracy Papers

  • “The Nearer Your Destination, the More You’re Slip-Sliding Away”: A Comment on Charles Taylor

    Nancy Rosenblum
  • American Challenges and Legislative Institutional Barriers Today

    David Mayhew
  • Anxieties about Congress

    Nolan McCarty
  • Anxieties of Climate Change: Thoughts from the SSRC Working Group on Climate Change

    Nancy Rosenblum and Robert O. Keohane
  • Anxieties of Democracy and Distribution

    Ian Shapiro
  • Anxieties of Democracy: Who Counts? How? Why?

    Frances Rosenbluth
  • Anxiety about Democracy: Why Now?

    Peter A. Hall
  • Civic Engagement and America’s Racialized, Anti-Democratic Public Sphere

    Michael C. Dawson
  • Democratic and Institutional Anxieties

    Uday Singh Mehta
  • Four Observations about Democratic Anxieties (or their Absence) in Latin America

    Deborah Yashar
  • In Defense of Permeability

    Courtney Jung
  • Income, Inequality, and Participation

    Nolan McCarty
  • Inefficacy, Anxiety, and Leadership

    William Howell
  • Is Democracy Slipping Away?

    Charles Taylor
  • Multilateralism and Democracy

    Andrew Moravcsik
  • Negotiation in the Crisis of Democracy

    Jane Mansbridge
  • Political Inequality: Challenges and Opportunities

    Martin Gilens
  • Politics, Policy, and Participation

    Thomas B. Edsall
  • Preliminary Thoughts on Participation and Citizen Equality

    Samuel Issacharoff
  • Representative Democracy and Alternative Models

    Timothy Frye
  • Representative Democracy and Alternative Models: Notes on Latin America

    Claudio Lomnitz
  • The Politics of Policies to Promote Gender Justice

    Mala Htun
  • The Substance of Policy Areas and Representation: Some Observations about Social Policy and Tax Policy

    Andrea Louise Campbell
  • Thoughts on Access and Participation in Contemporary American Democracy

    Nathaniel Persily
  • Three Reasons Congress Is Broken

    Robert Kaiser
  • What We Are Anxious about When We Say We Are Anxious about Inequalities of Influence

    Dara Strolovitch
  • Why a Philosophy of History in which the Present Moment Is World-Altering Is Not Hubris and Is Politically Necessary

    Nancy Rosenblum

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The work of the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program is possible due to generous funding from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Knight Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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The Inaugural Democracy Papers are part of the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program.

The new Democracy Papers can be found on Items, the SSRC’s digital essay forum.

The Inaugural Democracy Papers were produced as part of the planning process for the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program, which asks how democracies can capably address large problems in the public interest.

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