What is the state of deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis? This survey article
provides a descriptive and reflective assessment of recent developments in the field in the …

Barton and Ho present a global vision of social and civic education, one that reorients the
field toward justice and harmony. Drawing from diverse philosophical and cultural traditions …

One of the exciting developments in political theory in the last decades is that the
boundaries of the discipline gradually but vigorously expanded beyond “the West,” as …

The idea of a human right to democracy has received substantial attention from political
theorists, philosophers, and international lawyers. Arguments for its existence ignore the fact …

Deliberation is now among the central topics of political theory, and its practice is widely
accepted as essential to democracy. But if the study of deliberation is vast, it is also strangely …

This article challenges the conventional view that Confucianism has no place for the value of
equality by shifting the focus from direct justification of equality (Why equality?) to concerns …

Nearly all debates within contemporary Confucian political theory regarding the full or partial
adoption of democracy have understood democracy as electoral representative democracy …

“Deliberative democracy” refers to efforts, in both theory and practice, to reconcile the value
of deliberation with other core democratic principles, such as political equality and the …

This introductory article to Democratic Theory's special issue on the marginalized
democracies of the world begins by presenting the lexical method for understanding …

The last decades have witnessed the flourishing of consultative democracy (xieshang
minzhu, a concept similar to deliberative democracy) in China, with ambitions for …