"An enduring embarrassment of democratic theory is that it seems impotent when faced with questions about its own scope."

"A principled commitment to democracy offers a way out of this bind which protagonists on both sides of the debate app…"

"The principles and practices of democracy continue to spread ever more widely, and it is hard to imagine that there i…"

"The further institutional designers try to move along the continuum toward explicit proactive systems that force inte…"

"No conception of democracy as geared toward reducing domination can ignore the relations between the political system…"

"Political theorists often fail to appreciate that arguments about how politics ought to be organized typically depend…"

"Wealthy people used to find democracy frightening. The reason was simple: the poor, once enfranchised, should be expe…"

"First let me persuade you of my metaphysics and epistemology, then my theory of science, then my ethics and social th…"

"So Sen is right that democracy can be pressed into the service of reducing injustice. Indeed this can happen against …"

"It is hard not to sympathize with Shapiro's "show me the beef" approach to political theory. Rational choice theory h…"