Democratic theorists have paid increasing attention to problems of political representation
over the past two decades. Interest is driven by (a) a political landscape within which …

In this review, we focus on political inequality in rich democracies. In the two main sections,
we look at participation and representation, respectively. The former discusses whether …

Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the
rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Democratic Reason Page 3 Page 4 Democratic Reason Politics,
Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many Hélène Landemore Princeton University …

Along with the traditional “promissory” form of representation, empirical political scientists
have recently analyzed several new forms, called here “anticipatory,”“gyroscopic,” and …

From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in? electoral
engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability …

Recent work on the idea of political representation has challenged effectively orthodox
accounts of constituency and interests. However, discussions of representation need to …

Deliberative democracy now dominates the theory, reform, and study of democracy. Working
at its cutting edges, Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance reaches from …

The article compares analytically populism and technocracy as alternative forms of political
representation to party government. It argues that populist and technocratic principles of …

Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and
2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history …