democracy

Kaustubham Gautam ABSTRACT The principle of “one person, one vote” appears simple, yet its constitutional application in India remains deeply contested. Delimitation has emerged as one of the most important constitutional debates in modern India, posing very intricate and challenging questions relating to democratic equality, representative democracy, and the federal character of the Indian Const…

If deep persuasion is the only mode that produces lasting peace, what must a society look like for deep persuasion to be possible? This chapter derives three conditions — free speech, open speech, and democratic equality — and shows that democracy is the institutional form that preserves them. Free speech is the condition for communicating the evaluative perspectives that can transform a hierarch…

Ginny Badanes·...·Robert Osazuwa Ness
12/19/2024

As the “biggest election year in history” comes to an end, researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness and Democracy Forward GM Ginny Badanes discuss AI’s impact on democracy, including Daepp and Ness’s research into the tech’s use in Taiwan and India. The post Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness appeared first on Microsoft Research .

Through the Democracy and Dialogues Initiative, UConn is working to increase democratic and civic capacity by supporting community dialogues on critical issues, providing moderator and facilitation training for dialogues and deliberations, and partnering with campus colleagues and local institutions to increase meaningful participation by all community members. The Encounters Series is dedicated …

Through the Democracy and Dialogues Initiative, UConn is working to increase democratic and civic capacity by supporting community dialogues on critical issues, providing moderator and facilitation training for dialogues and deliberations, and partnering with campus colleagues and local institutions to increase meaningful participation by all community members. The Encounters Series is dedicated …

The forthcoming article “Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity” by Nathan Pippenger is summarized by the author below.  Does democracy need solidarity? Increasingly, political theorists are skeptical. Encouraging citizens to think of themselves as a “We” may threaten both a polity’s internal diversity and its peaceful relations with outsiders—hardly an abs…

Hans Blokland
8/21/2019

Last Monday, we started in Koblenz our Project “Deliberationsschulungen zur Stärkung der Demokratie“. The deliberations are organized by the Kreisverwaltung Mayen-Koblenz and are supported by the European Union. Some of the participants volunteered for a “Bewerbungsfoto”.  Together with the participants, mostly civil servants active in many different spheres (Youth Welfare Office, Job Centers, Ge…

Social Science Works
6/2/2019

In cooperation with local partners we organize deliberative workshops in schools. The themes are chosen together with teachers and students, depending on the needs and interests of the people involved. Popular are democracy, identity, radicalization, discrimination, racism, sex equality, and homosexuality. This year, we have a long term cooperation with the Grace Hopper Gesamtschule in […] The po…