This Critical Exchange takes up a conversation David Plotke inaugurated twentyfive years
ago with this simple statement:'Representation is democracy'(1997). This sentence …

In the eyes of its citizens, liberal democracy is connected to at least three promises—the
promises of autonomy, equality and rationality. To what extent citizens can view these …

Is voting a duty of democratic citizenship? This article advances a new argument for the
existence of a duty to vote. It argues that every normative account of electoral representation …

A tese trata da mobilização política de base territorial realizada por parlamentares ou,
simplesmente, da conexão territorial. O fenômeno é analisado pelo ângulo da …

This paper deals with the normative dilemma raised by the constructivist turn in
representation theory by focusing on a neglected aspect of such dilemma: under which …

This short piece discusses Hélène Landemore's proposal of an 'open democracy', as
outlined in her recent book Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First …

This research note builds upon a number of important articles published in a variety of
outlets concerning the population ecology of interest groups. Importantly, Lowery and Gray …

How concerning should it be that most citizens encounter political life chiefly as audiences?
Facing this fact, democratic theorists increasingly respond by reconceptualizing “the …

Studies analyse what politicians communicate at rallies. Yet most do so to determine what
politicians communicate at large. Therefore, they implicitly assume that what they …

Political scientists have long debated whether citizens meet the expectations of a 'folk
theory'of democratic representation, in which voters correctly reward and punish politicians …