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Protesting in early 21^st century China

by Emilie Frenkiel & Chloé Froissart, 7 March

In order to better grasp protests and social movements in China, whose number has impressively swollen in recent years, Books&Ideas presents a dossier on the evolution of social mobilization (...)

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Malcolm X and the Search for the Universality of Blackness

About: Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Viking Press.

by Alden Young, 13 December 2012

The recent biography of Malcolm X provides us with a compelling intellectual history of the charismatic leader. Marable’s critical reevalution of Malcolm’s biography traces his ideas back to a long (...)

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Essays

The Slow Triumph of the Majority

by Olivier Christin & translated by John Zvesper, 11 June 2012

How do you renounce unanimity to embrace the majority principle? How do you ward off the dissastisfaction of a minority defeated by vote? Those problems haunted the Middle Ages, the system of (...)

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Small States, Big Credit?

An interview with David Stasavage

by Stéphanie Novak & Will Slauter, 29 March 2012

In States of Credit, David Stasavage explains why city-states were able to create long-term debt as early as the 13th century, whereas territorial states began to do so only in the 16th century. (...)

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Are we Represented?

An interview with Loïc Blondiaux

by Emilie Frenkiel & Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 6 January 2012

The indignados movement signals people’s current dissatisfaction as regards political representation. Though pessimistic as to the political outlets of that mobilization, French political (...)

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Democracy: Bridging the Representation Gap

by Emilie Frenkiel, 28 December 2011

The current world-wide demand for “real” democracy as embodied in the Indignados (15-M) movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement reiterates long-lasting frustrations as regards representative (...)

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Essays

A Reflection on Populism

by Pierre Rosanvallon, 10 November 2011

As a counterbalance to the simplistic temptations of the populism that is currently spreading within European democracies, Pierre Rosanvallon invites us to complicate our notion of democracy and (...)

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Essays

The crisis of representation in Great-Britain

by Florence Faucher-King & translated by Pascale Torracinta, 17 November 2010

The scandal over expenses and the recent revelations about the corruption of former Labour MPs have seriously weakened the legitimacy of British political leadership. Florence Faucher-King (...)

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For an Ecological Democracy

by Dominique Bourg & Kerry Whiteside, 1 September 2009

Our consumption never stops increasing and the planet is bled dry. Relying on technological progress for our salvation is an illusion. For the solution is political: We must seek to refound our (...)

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Is representative democracy really democratic ?

Interview of Bernard Manin and Nadia Urbinati - New York, April 10, 2007

by Hélène Landemore, 31 March 2008

Hélène Landemore : Bernard Manin and Nadia Urbinati, you both have written books with apparently similar titles, respectively The principles of representative government (1997) and Representative (...)

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