Jean-Paul Gagnon
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A philosopher of the democracies based at the University of Canberra.
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We can cultivate democratic practices that are more inclusive, adaptive, and responsive to local realities across continents, cultures, languages, and species. We can even make our lives less authoritarian.
#democracy
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23 days ago
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Jean-Paul Gagnon
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30 days ago
Das Buch „The Sciences of the Democracies” (
@uclpress.bsky.social
) mit Benjamin Abrams, Jean-Paul Gagnon (
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) & Petra Guasti (
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The Sciences of the Democracies
The field of democracy studies is more constricted than it needs to be, as researchers, for all their insights, continue to study only fragments of democracy in isolation from each other. Seeking chan...
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sciences-of-the-democracies/
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To renew democracy, study it holistically. Draw on five sources: individual people, groups, non-textual media, texts, and non-humans. Do this across cultures, languages, and species to uncover unfamiliar practices beyond Western views.
#DemocraticRenewal
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A lovely interview by our co-author Tom Theuns on our recent book, The Sciences of the Democracies. His emphasis on the languages shows how very, very, much work we have ahead of us.
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Our readers are talking about the 'Fourth Theorist' of democracy. This person is yet to exist. They will be the first to theorize from thousands of practices and millions of texts/other on democracy. Is this a type of theorist we want/need? 🦄 Read open access:
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New book share. UCL Press published our Sciences of the Democracies last week in open access PDF. Link:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci...
A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.
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