From Essays in Philosophy, a special issue on Philosophy of Democracy. Candan Turkkan (UMass): Secularization of the Politics of Law: On Roots of Liberal Democracy. David Watkins (Dayton): Institutionalizing Freedom as Non-domination: Democracy and the Role of the State. Pavol Hardos (CEU): “Expert Review”: On Reconciling Politics of Expertise and Democracy. Steffen Ganghof (Potsdam): Reconciling Representation and Accountability: Three Visions of Democracy Compared. Doron Navot (Haifa): Political Corruption, Democratic Theory, and Democracy. Christian Marxsen (Max Planck): The Promise of Global Democracy: The International Impact of Civil Society. From International Studies Review, a review essay on governing global democracy by Steven C. Roach. Josep M. Colomer (Georgetown): World Government is Here. Daniele Archibugi and Marco Cellini (CNR): Democracy and Global Governance: The Internal and External Levers. Democracy floats on currents of change, but is it ever capable of managing them? Jackson Lears reviews The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis From World War I to the Present by David Runciman. The great chastening: For Francis Fukuyama and John Dunn, our democratic crisis is the result of an intellectual failure. Rory Sutherland and Glen Weyl on what bees can teach humans about democracy: There is a system that accounts for intensity of passion as well as idle opinion — hives have used it successfully for millions of years.
