No democratic state has yet implemented a climate plan strong enough to meet the goals of
the Paris Agreement. This has led some to argue that democracy cannot cope with a …

This paper reviews the various connections that can exist between the design of
participatory processes and the different kind of results that they can entail. It details how …

Perhaps the most prominent philosophical concern underlying Seyla Benhabib's work is the
search for “the concrete universal.” This fundamental question is as old as philosophy itself …

Democracy requires a connection to the'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world
of'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive …

The importance of questioning the values, background assumptions, and normative
orientations shaping sustainability research has been increasingly acknowledged …

Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the
challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of …

Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector,
have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few …

EMPIRICAL research on deliberative democracy suggests many innovative institutional
proposals for bringing current societies closer to that ideal. 1 Although these proposals may …

This article seeks to put the “public” back in public values research by theorizing about the
potential of direct citizen participation to assist with identifying and understanding public …

In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind,
one of the most serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what …