The study of democratic innovations has long been situated in the deliberative paradigm.
Today, however, a new scholarly generation conceptualizes democratic innovations from …

The question of the contested nature of the concept of democracy is neither in doubt within
the political science debate, nor new. What is new, however, is the attention paid to the …

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens
the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves. Innovatively building on …

Research on meanings and understandings of democracy is growing. But besides useful
theoretical and empirical insights, this research produces open questions concerning the …

Contemporary democracies feature an increasingly diverse and complex variety of
democratic practices. The systematic observation of these practices offers a valuable yet …

Normative democratic theory with a focus on civic engagement is increasingly interested in
how participatory instances connect into democratic systems (Dean, Rinne, et al. 2019; …

Algorithmic Institutionalism is the first book to conceive algorithms as institutions in
contemporary societies, focusing on different dimensions of how they structure decision …

Area-based initiatives (ABIs) set out to improve livability and living conditions in
disadvantaged urban neighborhoods by making use of extensive citizen participation. ABIs …

The way allied Western nations protect their interests has been a major problem and factor
in the demise of governance and democracy in the Nigerian state and other African nations …

What is democratic theory? The question is surprisingly infrequently posed. Indeed, the last
time this precise question appears in the academic archive was exactly forty years ago, in …