One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

No democratic state has yet implemented a climate plan strong enough to meet the goals of
the Paris Agreement. This has led some to argue that democracy cannot cope with a …

The proliferation of AI in many aspects of human life—from personal leisure, to collaborative
professional work, to global policy decisions—poses a sharp question about how to prepare …

Perhaps the most prominent philosophical concern underlying Seyla Benhabib's work is the
search for “the concrete universal.” This fundamental question is as old as philosophy itself …

Finding agreement through a free exchange of views is often difficult. Collective deliberation
can be slow, difficult to scale, and unequally attentive to different voices. In this study, we …

That there are more opportunities than ever for citizens to express their views may be,
counterintuitively, a problem facing democracy—the sheer quantitative overabundance …

This paper is positioned at the intersection of two literatures: partisan polarization and
deliberative democracy. It analyzes results from a national field experiment in which more …

Ireland has become something of a trail-blazer in the use of deliberative methods in the
process of constitutional review. It is the first case in which the process has been employed a …

Popular consensus has long been that if" enough women" are present in political institutions
they will represent" women's interests." Yet many believe that differences among women …

Polarization in the United States and around the world is of growing concern. Polarization is
about more than just differences in opinions in society. It occurs when groups increasingly …