Debating Democracy

Jason Brennan is the Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Ethics of Voting (Princeton University Press, 2012), Compulsory Voting: For and Against (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Against Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2016). His books have been translated twenty-four times into thirteen languages. He specializes in democratic theory and politics, philosophy, and economics. Hélène Landemore is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Princeton University Press, 2012), which won the Spitz Prize in 2015, and Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century Century (Princeton University Press, 2020). She researches democratic theory, constitutional theory, and political epistemology. She serves as an advisor to the French government on the use of citizen participation in policy-making.

Introduction

Part I: Brennan - Democracy without Romance
Chapter 1. How Real Democracy Really Works
Chapter 2. Is the Solution More Democracy?
Chapter 3. Democracy: Less Is More
Chapter 4. Alternatives to Democracy

Part II: Landemore - Let's Try Real Democracy
Chapter 5. The Argument for Democracy
Chapter 6. Objections
Chapter 7. Against Epistemocracies
Chapter 8. If Democracy Is Such a Smart Regime, Why Are Democracies Doing So Poorly at the Moment and How Can We Fix Them?

Part III: Responses by Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore
Chapter 9. A Response to Brennan
Chapter 10. A Response to Landemore