Although the use of design‐based control techniques, broadly understood as the purposeful
shaping of the environment and the things and beings within it toward particular ends, have …

Is choice architecture a problem for a free society? Is nudging unethical? Is it coercive or
manipulative, or an offense to autonomy and dignity? This essay defends seven …

Democracy, particularly in the past twenty-five years, has increasingly become the
touchstone by which we justify and criticize the features of public life. The content of specific …

The present paper consists of two closely related parts: one which outlines a normative
criterion for evaluating the legitimacy of constitutional change and one which specifies a …

Recent attempts to model and measure freedom in the Freedom of Choice Literature (FCL)
have focused on the range of opportunities enjoyed by individuals. In this article we focus …

The paper contrasts the liberal conception of democracy as the aggregation of individual
preferences with the deliberative conception of democracy as a process of open discussion …

A working democratic system of government is based on voting and elections. A glance at
the literature reveals an astonishing variety of systems used for electing persons to political …

BY liberal democratic theory, I mean that genre of political theory that attempts to articulate,
at the same time, both liberal and democratic judgments on political arrangements. Roughly …

Is nudging unethical? Is choice architecture a problem for a free society? This essay defends
seven propositions:(1) It is pointless to object to choice architecture or nudging as such …