Democracy

Citizenship in Emergency

Can democracy protect us against terrorism?

  • Elaine Scarry
with responses from
  • Richard Falk
  • Paul W. Kahn
  • Stephen M. Walt
  • Charles Knight
  • Antonia Chayes
  • Catherine Lutz
  • Eugene J. Carroll, Jr.
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Ellen Willis

The Search for New Voting Technology

America’s voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
with responses from
  • Lloyd Cutler & Robert Michel
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Donna Brazile
  • David C. King
  • Daniel R. Ortiz
  • E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  • Robert Richie
  • Mickey Edwards
  • Heather Gerken
  • Marc Strassman
  • Michael Cornfield

Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?

Emerging technologies increase people’s ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, creating serious dangers.

  • Cass Sunstein
with responses from
  • Jay Rosen
  • Simson Garfinkel
  • Michael Schudson
  • Ronald N. Jacobs
  • Shanto Iyengar
  • Henry Jenkins
  • Robert W. McChesney

Ethics and Equality

Egalitarianism must be understood as part of a more encompassing view of how best to live.

  • Stuart White

Social Justice Is Good for Our Health

How greater economic equality would promote public health.

  • Norman Daniels
  • Bruce Kennedy
  • Ichiro Kawachi
with responses from
  • Michael Marmot
  • Marcia Angell
  • Sudhir Anand & Fabienne Peter
  • Ted Marmor
  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  • Barbara Starfield
  • Emmanuela Gakidou & Julio Frenk & Christopher Murray
  • Steffie Woolhander & David Himmelstein

On Post-Fascism

Its central characteristic is hostility to universal citizenship.

  • G. M. Tamás

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Educating a Democracy

The demands of the 21st century, as well as the demands of democratic life, are best met by preserving plural definitions of a good education.

  • Deborah Meier
with responses from
  • Abigail Thernstrom
  • Bob Chase
  • Gary B. Nash
  • Linda Nathan
  • Richard J. Murnane
  • Bill Ayers
  • Theodore Sizer

When Rights Are Wrong

The difficult choices surrounding building searches, curfews, anti-loitering provisions, and the like should be made by the individuals with the biggest stake in them.

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Dan M. Kahan
with responses from
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Joel F. Handler
  • Carol S. Steiker
  • Wesley G. Skogan
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Franklin E. Zimring
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Anthony Paul Farley
  • Richard H. Pildes

The Ownership Solution

A better way to share the wealth.

  • Jeff Gates
with responses from
  • Sewin Chan & Henry Schneider & Joseph Tracy
  • Gar Alperovitz
  • Herbert Gintis
  • William H. Simon

The Immigrant as Pariah

Laws imposing social disabilities on immigrants are at odds with constitutional guarantees of equality.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard B. Freeman
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Jennifer Gordon
  • Ulrich Preuss
  • Iris M. Young
  • Robin West
  • Mark Tushnet
  • Myron Weiner
  • Jagdish Bhagwati
  • Muzaffar Chishti

The Case for Proportional Representation

The failures of our winner-takes-all system.

  • Robert Richie
  • Steven Hill
with responses from
  • Cynthia McKinney
  • John Ferejohn
  • E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  • Gary W. Cox
  • Daniel Cantor
  • Ross Mirkarimi
  • Anthony Thigpenn
  • Pamela S. Karlan

Going Public

New Directions for Campaign Finance Reform

  • David Donnelly
  • Janice Fine
  • Ellen S. Miller

Democracy or Neoliberalism?

  • Atilio Boron

Democracy and Positive Liberty

Can liberal constitutional theory make space for the positive aspect of political freedom?

  • Frank Michelman

A Better Democracy, A Better Economy

The quality of state intervention in the economy depends on the quality of democratic institutions.

  • Adam Przeworski

Strategies for Rebuilding the Left

To overcome fragmentation and launch grassroots social movements, progressive activists and intellectuals need new ways of organizing.

  • Richard Flacks
with responses from
  • Frances Fox Piven
  • John Walsh
  • Janice Fine

Who Cares About Voting Rights?

Better procedures are unlikely to solve the problems of racial politics.

  • Mark Tushnet

Democratic Revolution in an Age of Autocracy

Reinventing democracy requires that we create new tools of empowerment.

  • Ralph Nader

Second Proms and Second Primaries

The Limits of Majority Rule

  • Lani Guinier

After the Fall

What both parties have in common.

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Joel Rogers

What’s Left for the Left?

Reviewing On Democracy by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers.

  • Christopher S. Allen
  • Suzanne Gordon

America First

The United States in the arms race.

  • H. Bruce Franklin
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