Empirical studies reveal many citizens' unwillingness to get rid of representative democracy.
A great number of them, however, distrust their representatives and would want …

It IS COMMONLY THOUGHT that widespread voter ignorance is a problem for
democracies.'Ignorant voters can inadvertently vote against their interests. More generally …

Politics abounds with bad language: lying and bullshitting, grandstanding and virtue
signaling, code words and dogwhistles, and more. But why is there so much bad language …

The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging
the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually …

This essay explores the possible justification that liberal perfectionism may provide to an
epistocratic regime. I suggest that epistocratic mechanisms and rules can maintain and …

Concerned about the harmful effects of pervasive political ignorance, epistocrats argue that
we should amplify the political power of politically knowledgeable citizens. But their …

In a recent paper, María Pía Méndez (2022) offers an epistemic critique of epistocracy
according to which the sort of politically well-informed but homogenous groups of citizens …

Committees multiply in firms, whether stakeholder boards or committees, multi-stakeholder
initiatives, ethics committees, or oversight boards. These arrangements aim to organise and …

Eric Monnet makes the case that central banks should introduce welfare-oriented credit
policies and suggests legitimating these new powers through the establishment of …

Lottocracy and epistocracy have received deeply insightful attention as political regimes.
Herein, by conducting an experiment using an online survey, we explored the extent to …