🦋 Data, power, and the future of democratic theory The Science of Democracy 2.0 challenges current uses of the term 'democracy'. Yida Zhai argues that these uses are not universal but culturally specific. This, he says, makes them inadequate for descr...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.130
🤺 The Science of Democracy 2.0 challenges current uses of the term 'democracy'.
🌍 Yida Zhai argues that these uses are not universal but culturally specific, making them inadequate for describing the political realities of the human species as a whole.
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🦋 Reimagining democratic theory Gulay Icoz explores how the rejuvenated Science of Democracy series – Science of Democracy 2.0 – challenges conventional democratic theory. Here, she explains how it opens new pathways for citizen-led...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.129
💭 Gulay Icoz explores how this rejuvenated series challenges conventional #DemocraticTheory + opens new pathways for citizen-led innovation while raising critical questions about institutional grounding + feasibility.
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🦋 Democracy beyond collection This new phase in the Science of Democracy series – 2.0 – opens space for multiple democratic practices and concepts that defy a single definition. Yet, can plurality alone unsettle colonial knowledge...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.128
💭 This series opens space for multiple democratic practices + concepts that defy a single definition, but can plurality alone unsettle colonial knowledge structures? 
🔎 Paul Emiljanowicz explores the project’s decolonial aspirations.
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🦋 The theory of democracy revisited: an interdisciplinary call to arms Discussions about democracy have never been more vibrant. Yet, debates often unfold in a highly simplistic or unreflective way. Dimitris Kastritis joins the Science of Democracy 2.0 to argue for the n...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.127
Discussions about democracy have never been more vibrant. 🗣️ Yet, debates often unfold in a highly simplistic or unreflective way.
🙋 Dimitris Kastritis argues for the need to keep raising 🆕 questions in democratic theory.
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🦋 Democratising democracy science: challenges, chances, and aporias This new phase in the Science of Democracy series sets a brisk and insightful agenda for overcoming the gridlock in democracy studies. While he embraces its key points, Peter A. Kraus argues that the ...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.126
🚦 This new phase in the series sets an insightful agenda for overcoming the gridlock in democracy studies.
🗣️ Peter A. Kraus argues that the ultimate + inescapable challenge in developing a democratic epistemics is the politics involved.
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🦋 Epistocracy, DemEarth, and the asteroid belt of democracy Who should decide what counts as democratic, and how? This series argues that such a challenge raises an ethical, a practical, and a philosophical difficulty. Leonardo Fiorespino questions the ethical...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.125
🙋‍♀️ Who should decide what counts as democratic, and how? Such a challenge raises ethical, practical, and philosophical difficulties.
☄️ Leonardo Fiorespino questions the ethical issue and introduces 'the asteroid belt of democracies'.
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🦋 The times have changed: beyond conventional studies of democracy Institutional theories rooted in the works of Joseph Schumpeter and Robert Dahl still dominate the study of democracy. But, argues Ryusaku Yamada, this Science of Democracy 2.0  discussion reveals the...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.124
Institutional theories rooted in the works of #Schumpeter + #RobertDahl still dominate the study of democracy.
Ryusaku Yamada argues this series reveals the emergence of another current: scholars who engage democracy from critical perspectives.
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🦋 Breaking democracy out of its box We need to break democracy out of the disciplinary boundaries of political studies. A fresh, multidisciplinary approach to reimagining democracy, argues Mouli Banerjee, could be the antidote to the gl...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.123
We need to break democracy out of the disciplinary boundaries of political studies. Reimagining it using a multidisciplinary approach, argues @pandapoliticus.bsky.social, could be the antidote to the global democratic anxiety we are facing.
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🦋 The pluriverse of democracy In a time of anthropogenic existential crises, writes Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, this new stage in the Science of Democracy conversation highlights how plural thinking can help rejuvenate democracy

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.122
💭 In a time of anthropogenic existential crises, writes @ioannisrz.bsky.social, this new stage in the Science of Democracy conversation highlights how plural thinking can help rejuvenate democracy.
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🦋 The ‘Fourth Theorist’ and the future of democracy A new book by this series’ founder introduced the radical idea of a yet-to-exist theoretician who can access and condense immense amounts of information. Rishiraj Sen looks at the advantages and pitfa...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.119
💭 The ‘Fourth Theorist’ is the radical idea of a yet-to-exist theoretician who can access + condense immense amounts of information. @rishirajsen.bsky.social explores whether the #FourthTheorist risks becoming an authoritarian figure.
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🦋 On democracy’s 'Fourth Theorist' This new phase in the Science of Democracy series posits the idea of a 'Fourth Theorist' – a still-to-exist thinker who may in future come to life. But, asks Dimitra Mareta, will that person, or thing...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.118
💭 This new phase in the series posits the idea of a 'Fourth Theorist' – a still-to-exist thinker who may in future come to life. But, asks Dimitra Mareta, will that person, or thing, deliver on their promises? Or will it prove a false idol?
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🦋 Does our understanding of democratic consolidation have a male bias? Feminist scholarship is warning of a backlash against gender equality and women’s political inclusion. But if anti-gender backlash constitutes democratic deconsolidation, why has it been possible to d...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.117
Feminist scholarship is warning of a backlash against #GenderEquality and women’s inclusion. ♂️♀️ Fadhilah Primandari revisits our understanding of democratic consolidation and asks: is it biased towards men’s political domination?
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🦋 Plain democracy: reclaiming fundamentals in an age of democratic erosion In the current climate of populist narratives, citizens need a clear message about democracy. Agnieszka Pawłowska draws inspiration from the notion of plain language. Here, she proposes that citizens ...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.116
🗣️ In a climate of populist narratives, citizens need a clear message about democracy.
💭 Agnieszka Pawłowska proposes we should be provided with plain democracy, which would empower us to recognise + use the fundamentals of democracy.
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🦋 Shift happens: rethinking democracy research in times of crisis Democracy research must evolve. Citizens support democracy itself, but are growing disillusioned with democratic institutions. Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach and Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann say we need to…

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.115
🏫 Citizens support democracy itself, but are growing disillusioned with democratic institutions.
💭 @normaosterberg.bsky.social & Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach suggest we need to rethink our frameworks and broaden the empirical paradigm.
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🦋 Democracy in academia: the not-so-wanted child Of all domains of inquiry, the science of democracy is hit particularly heavily in non-democratic regimes. Max Steuer argues that non-democratic practices in academia complicate the issue. Here, he ca...

🦋 #ScienceofDemocracy No.114
🌍 The science of democracy is hit particularly heavily in non-democratic regimes.
🏫 Max Steuer argues that non-democratic practices in academia complicate the issue and calls for a debate on more intra-academic democracy.
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🦋 The Science of Democracy and the limits of an uncompromisingly pluralist approach Democracy is in trouble, and so is democracy research. In response, the Science of Democracy 2.0 lays out an ambitious agenda. While applauding this endeavour, Jonas Wolff explores a fundamental…

🦋 #ScienceofDemocracy No.113
#DemocracyResearch is in trouble. The Science of Democracy 2.0 responds with an ambitious agenda. Jonas Wolff explores a fundamental tension: can a radically pluralist approach to democracy research really be a tool to defend democracy?
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🦋 What counts as democracy? A critical reflection on The Science of Democracy 2.0 The Science of Democracy 2.0 offers a bold, innovative rethinking of democracy by embracing diversity and challenging Western-centric models. Hong Do acknowledges its ambition, but argues it risks…

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.112
💭 A new phase in this series offers a rethinking of democracy by challenging Western-centric models. @hongdp.bsky.social acknowledges its ambition, but argues it risks celebrating democratic traditions without fully addressing embedded inequalities.
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🦋 Science of Democracy 2.0 To kickstart another round of essays, Jean-Paul Gagnon recaps four years’ worth of discussions in The Loop's Science of Democracy series. He explains where this ever-growing community of scholars has ...

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.111
✍️ To kickstart another round of essays, Jean-Paul Gagnon recaps four years’ worth of discussions in this series. He explains where this ever-growing community of scholars has got to so far – and where it aims to go next.
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